NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system, entering interstellar space in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The pair were originally intended to study the ...

The Voyager missions didn’t just expand our knowledge of the universe—they captured our imaginations. From stunning photos of gas giants to groundbreaking data from interstellar space ...

“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979 ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed the 'Pale Blue Dot', is part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames ...

Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar system. The probe entered interstellar space in August 2012. As of December, Voyager 1 was ...

Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar system. The probe entered interstellar space in August 2012. As of December, Voyager 1 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ones and zeros. That’s the love language of computers. It’s how NASA’s ...

For example, why did it register a strongly asymmetric, plasma-free magnetosphere – something that is unheard of for planets in our solar system – and belts of highly energetic electrons? Voyager 2 ...

On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Humanity’s farthest-flung emissary is speaking clearly again after a tense ...