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 ...

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 ...

Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images. ... fresh from taking the first-ever close-up observations and photos of ice giant ...

Voyager 2 launched in 1977, several weeks before Voyager 1. That probe only zipped past Jupiter and Saturn in the outer solar system before heading for interstellar space.

On August 20, 1977, Voyager 2 was launched into space. Its twin, Voyager 1, would be launched 16 days later. Together, they’d bring a new understanding of the gas giant planets in the Solar ...

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 ...

On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune. This one — among the last full-disk photos taken before the probe ended its "Grand Tour" of the ...

The agency provides an interactive diagram tracking Voyager 2's path outside the solar system. Historic probes launched in the 1970s. Voyager 2 was launched into space in 1977 from Cape Canaveral, ...

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 ...