What it is: Saturn, the seventh planet from the sun, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft The image was taken 9 million miles (15 million km) from Earth, just as Voyager 2 approached the ringed ...

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two Voyager missions NASA launched that year. Thanks to a ...

Yes, it is still alive and it still sending signals back to Earth, even though it is about 12.1 billion miles away (19.5 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is the first of its kind to be launched, but ...

NASA has received a signal from the Voyager 2 spacecraft that it accidentally lost contact with on July 21. Communications with the famous spacecraft, which launched in 1977 and is currently around 12 ...

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NASA lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft—the second-most distant object ever built by humans and flung into space—nearly two weeks ago due to an errant command sent to the probe. This caused ...

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system’s eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager ...

Voyager 2 can keep sending science back from interstellar space a little longer. NASA's long-running Voyager 2 mission will postpone an instrument shutdown three years to 2026 thanks to a technical ...

Scientists have uncovered a new mystery about Uranus' rings buried deep in data from NASA's iconic Voyager 2 mission. Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in January 1986, discovering 10 moons and two rings ...

NASA isn't giving up on the Voyager spacecraft. After decades in deep space, the plucky little probe is running low on power. But NASA has devised a way to siphon energy from a backup supply, giving ...