When Voyager 1 and 2 crossed the boundary of the heliosphere, many believed they would drift silently into a cold, empty ,voidinterstellar space. It was expected to be a lifeless region, too sparse ...

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets. Now, over 45 years later, these incredible probes are detecting something mysterious beyond the edge of our solar ...

Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...

Originally launched in 1977, Voyager 2 has been making its way through space for over 40 years now. Of course, all that time in space means that, eventually, the probe’s power supply will give out.

Voyager 1 and 2 were both launched in reverse order 16 days apart in 1977. Their goal was to explore the outer planets of our solar system, while Voyager 2 remains the only probe to get up close ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets in the solar system in 1977. ... Video 'CyberGuy': Prada's out-of-this-world spacesuit for NASA.

Voyager 1 is one half of the Voyager mission. It has a twin spacecraft, Voyager 2. Launched in 1977, they were primarily built for a four-year trip to Jupiter and Saturn , expanding on earlier ...

Voyager 1 defied the odds yet again—after over six months of technical issues potentially foreshadowing humanity’s final farewell to the historic spacecraft, NASA reports all four of the probe ...

Voyager 1 is currently 14.6 billion miles from home, and Voyager 2 is 12.1 billion miles away, but for perspective, the nearest star is some 25 trillion miles away. (NASA maintains a tracker of ...

On February 25, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) turned off Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem experiment and on March 25, it will shut down Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument.