Launched in 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, embarked on a historic journey to explore the ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar space.

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for future lunar missions.

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes are reaching the end of their service lives. NASA announced that ...

Voyager 1's identical instrument had been switched off years prior thanks to degraded performance, and Voyager 2 was struggling to use the instrument anyway due to its travel orientation.

NASA is making sacrifices to keep the Voyager mission alive Instruments on Voyagers 1 and 2 are being shut off to keep the probes running until the 2030s.

Nearly 50 years after they were first launched, Voyager 1 and 2 are still traveling around interstellar space — though they've faced some setbacks over the years. Now, NASA has announced that ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each ...

Voyager 2 ’s impending power-saving solution concerns its low-energy charged particle instrument that was designed to measure ions, electrons, and other cosmic forces.