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The Voyager spacecraft, launched by NASA in the 1970s, have embarked on humanity’s most ambitious journey into the depths of ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After a storied, 28-year odyssey, NASA's venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have reached the edge of the solar system, a turbulent zone of near-nothingness where the solar wind begins 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 ...
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 ...
How Voyager 1 is still bringing us surprises from the very edge of our solar system. The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades ...