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As humanity’s first emissaries into the vast reaches of interstellar space, the Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Pioneer probes have ...
As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...
Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, launched a few weeks apart in 1977 to perform an unprecedented "grand tour" of the solar system's giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Voyager 2 has begun using a small backup power reserve that was part of a safety mechanism, which will enable the spacecraft to keep from shutting down another science instrument until 2026, ...
NASA announced the arrival of Voyager 2 in interstellar space on Dec. 10, 2018. Voyager 1 reached the milestone in 2012. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...
After a 41-year journey, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is officially the second human-made object to leave our solar system. Researchers announced on Monday that on November 5, Voyager 2 broke ...
On November 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft became the second human-made object to cross into interstellar space. Now, scientists have shared the initial science gained by Voyager 2’s ...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back its first message from the interstellar space, after having left our solar system late last year. This makes it only the second human-made object to ever ...
NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been traveling through space, revealing the secrets of the solar system, for the last 42 years. In all that time, they've beamed back tons of data ...
Voyager 2 is over 11.2 billion miles from Earth, but it’s traveling at 34,391 miles per hour — that’s 10 miles per second — so that distance is increasing at a rapid rate.