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San Francisco, CA. – 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 ...
The Voyager spacecraft, launched by NASA in the 1970s, have embarked on humanity’s most ambitious journey into the depths of ...
Once Voyager 2 had left the heliosphere, scientists expected a dramatic drop in the number of charged particles it detected. This proved to be the case for Voyager 1, but things weren’t the same ...
Voyager spacecrafts go beyond the solar system and garner several intriguing insights about the uncharted territory.
These changes told researchers that Voyager 2 had left the sun’s protective magnetic bubble, just over 41 years after beginning its sight-seeing expedition across the solar system. Science News ...
Voyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the forces at the solar system's outer edge, and confirmed the solar system's squashed shape.
Voyager 1 left the solar system when it had traveled 122.6 AU—almost 11.5 billion miles. Voyager 2 left at a distance of 119.7 AU—just over 11 billion miles. Related Stories ...
This NASA diagram illustrates the hypothesized positions of Voyagers 1 and 2 in the solar system as of October 2018. Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012. Voyager 2 may soon hit that ...
The Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, swung past the gas giants of our solar system, making this spacecraft the only device to gather detailed data about Uranus and Neptune.
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 ...