Voyager spacecrafts go beyond the solar system and garner several intriguing insights about the uncharted territory.

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.

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 ...

This visualization tracks the trajectory of the Voyager 2 spacecraft through the solar system. Launched on August 20, 1977, it was one of two spacecraft sent to visit the giant planets of the ...

So Voyager 2 isn't anywhere close to out of the solar system.It may not even be past the distance of the planets. And while the craft may be in interstellar space, Dodd says there's always a ...

Cosmic protons. As Voyager 2 crossed the heliopause — the boundary where the solar wind yields to interstellar plasma — it measured many more high-energy protons striking it per second.

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 ...

In the final days of summer in 1977, twin spacecrafts left Earth to explore the solar system. For more than a year, Voyager 1 and 2 quietly navigated space, winding their way through the asteroid ...

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 ...

In 1977, Jimmy Carter moved into the White House, “Star Wars” and “Saturday Night Fever” premiered in theaters and the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral ...