In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

Voyager 1 took the last picture, affectionately known as the solar system family portrait, on Feb. 14, 1990. While the spacecraft are still functioning today, most of their other instruments have ...

Voyager 2 left the solar system last year. NASA JPL. Voyager 1 entered this interstellar space in 2012, with instruments on board showing changes to the ...

Those images – taken on Valentine’s Day – were the last images taken by the Voyager spacecraft, and represented a look at our solar system as seen from the outside.

Voyager 1 is farther along than its sister probe, which actually was launched earlier, on Aug. 20, 1977. Voyager 1 now is on track to become the first manmade object to exit the solar system.

Late last year, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft broke through the heliopause, the boundary where the solar wind gives way to the plasma that permeates the galaxy (SN: 12/10/18).

Nobody expected to take it this far. When NASA launched two probes named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in the summer of 1977, scientists hoped the probes would get as far as Saturn during their five-year ...

Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the "termination shock," sometime within the next year. The milestone comes earlier than expected and suggests to ...

Each of the planets in our solar system is unique in its very own way, ... The above image was taken in 1998 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. 9. ... * Prices last scanned on 6/15/2025 at 3:57 am ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas ...

Voyager 2 may soon hit that milestone. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Want to get ... Whenever it does successfully flee the solar system, Voyager 2 will become just the second human-made object ...