Voyager 2 was the first of twin probes sent to explore our solar system. ... Voyager 2's pictures of the moon Miranda revealed it to be perhaps the strangest moon in the solar system.

Voyager 2 is part of NASA's longest-running mission, having traveled through space for almost half a century. Along the way, it has captured some of the most iconic pictures of the solar system.

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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. Last month, the spacecraft - exploring the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reconnected with the Voyager 2 space probe after losing it. The space agency lost contact on July 21 after accidentally sending a wrong command.

Commands sent to Voyager 2 on July 21 accidentally caused the spacecraft’s antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth. The miniscule shift means that Voyager 2 can’t receive any commands from ...

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft twins, on the other hand, have really proven themselves to be incredibly rugged. Voyager 2 , which is over 43 years old at this point, has been traveling out of our ...

As a result, Voyager 2 is in what NASA calls a "quiet period" meaning that it cannot receive or send anything. Fortunately, two degrees isn't enough to kill the mission nearly 46 years after it ...

Voyager 2 (the closer of the twin spacecraft), is currently 140 AU from the Sun, meaning you are 16 times closer to Saturn than Voyager is. So even if they could take a picture, your phone could ...

NASA sent a radio signal to Voyager 2, located billions of miles away in interstellar space, and restored communications with the spacecraft after an errant command caused a blackout.

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, ...

Voyager 2 is more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion km) from Earth, where it is hurtling at an estimated 34,390mph (55,346km/h) through interstellar space - the space between the stars.