For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin spacecraft can continue ...

NASA says its Voyager 2 probe flew into interstellar space in November and beyond the sun's reach. However, the robot has not left the solar system.

An artist's rendering of the Voyager 1 probe. - NASA/JPL-Caltech When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are breathing a tentative sigh of relief after receiving a signal from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The exploratory probe lost contact with its ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...

Amy Simon at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, leads a team studying Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope. The observations show the storm’s long axis is half what was ...

NASA is ready to call it: Voyager 1 has finally entered into interstellar space, for real this time. And, surprise, the satellite left for the interstellar a year ago, according to an analysis of the ...