Voyager 2 was the first of twin probes sent to explore our solar system. After reaching interstellar space in 2014 the probe continues to explore the cosmos.

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Nasa has picked up a "heartbeat" signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost contact with it billions of miles away from Earth, the space agency said.

NASA accidentally lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe after sending a wrong command. It could mean the end of its 46-year-old mission.

Mission engineers sent a command to shutter the Voyager 2’s Plasma Science, or PLS, experiment — which was used to observe solar winds — on September 26 using the Deep Space Network, a ...

Are either of the Voyager spacecraft capable of taking a picture of our solar system from their current interstellar locations? Jake CunninghamEugene, Oregon No, but let's talk about how the ...

NASA lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 after it erroneously instructed the probe to point its antennae away from Earth.

Voyager 2’s mission team was able to detect a signal from the spacecraft confirming it’s still operating as normal after an errant command caused a loss of contact.

NASA fired off a message to Voyager 2, which is currently traveling in interstellar space, and the decades-old spacecraft responded. Voyager 2 was launched back in the late 1970s and has remained ...

Voyager 2 is in what NASA calls a "quiet period" meaning that it cannot receive or send anything.

This confirmed Voyager 2 was alive and operating - but where exactly in space is the probe and its twin Voyager 1? MailOnline takes a look.