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 ...

Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

NASA’s oldest probe, Voyager 2, is turning 45 at the solar system’s edge First launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyager probes are the agency's longest-operating mission. By Laura Baisas ...

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 ...

One year ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 probe became just the second human-made object in history to exit the solar system and officially enter interstellar space. Voyager 2 was launched on August 20 ...