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On November 5, 2018, Voyager 2 left what's known as the "heliosphere," a giant bubble of charged particles flowing out from the sun that sheathes our solar system. In doing so, the probe crossed a ...
The Voyager 2 probe could be the first man-made object to travel outside the solar system in a few years, which may or may not result in it being discovered by sentient life and then sent back to ...
In a remarkable breakthrough, NASA's Voyager spacecraft has ventured beyond the Solar System to reveal a fascinating phenomenon: a searing "wall" of high temperature located outside our cosmic ...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft spent more than four decades surfing the solar wind away from the sun and out into the galaxy. Then, in less than a day, the probe burst from our sun’s protective bubble ...
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. IE 11 is not ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. ... outside the Solar System — for a little while now, ...
The Voyager probes we sent from Earth back in the 70s found an incredible 'wall of fire' at the edge of our solar system ...
IRA FLATOW, HOST: Thirty-five years ago, NASA launched a pair of spacecraft called Voyager 1 and 2 in hopes of learning more about the outer planets of solar system, those big gas giants.
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 ...
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. For the past forty years or so they've been speeding along at a clip of over 30,000 miles per hour, and while ...