The image was assembled from three black and white images taken through color ... is part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

the largest moon in the solar system. This map, a collaborative effort using images from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions, ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an ... but on cosmic scales it missed by a whisker – it’s closer than the Voyager probes, which are more than 136 times the Earth-Sun distance ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...

NASA released explosive new views of the solar system’s most volcanically active world this week, exciting astronomers and prompting discoveries. Among other standout features, the images show a ...

On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system.

As a result of its exceptionally long-lived mission, Voyager 1 experiences issues as its parts age in the frigid outer reaches beyond our solar system. When an issue crops up, engineers at NASA ...

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, launched on their initial missions in 1977 to study the distant solar system. They collectively flew by four largest outer solar system planets by 1989 and continue, ...