NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...

The 46-year-old probe, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn in its youth and inspired earthlings with images of the planet as a “Pale Blue Dot,” hasn’t sent usable data from interstellar space ...

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Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal first encountered NASA’s Voyager spacecraft during a student job in the late 1970s. Get her take on following these spacecraft for nearly 50 years, as they traveled to ...

NASA has regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists announced Monday.

Voyager 1 was the second of the twin spacecraft to launch, but it was the first to race by Jupiter and Saturn. The images Voyager 1 sent back have been used in schoolbooks and by many media ...

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Voyager 1 and 2, Humanity’s Interstellar Envoys, Soldier On at 45 The two probes made flybys of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s. Today they’re still doing science way out beyond our solar system.

Voyager 1 has traveled far, offering a privileged and unprecedented insight into the universe beyond our own.

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that -- and much more.