In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

Launched with 1970s technology, the Voyager probes were sent on a path through the seemingly deadly asteroid belt and past ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

Banner image: Artist's depiction of the Voyager spacecraft. (Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL) For nearly 50 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space’s little engine that could ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

Despite its 484-million-mile (778 million kilometers) distance, the Sun still has a measurable impact on Jupiter, generating jets of plasma around the planet. But it turns out they’ve been hiding from ...

There are jets in Jupiter’s magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream. You may remember Voyager 2. It ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes ...

You’ve got to love technology. Thanks to space exploration, we’re given an inside look at the planets like we’d never be able to see them. Jupiter's Great Red Spot viewed by Voyager 1. Last year, NASA ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 20, 1977, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a Titan III-Centaur rocket, embarking on a "grand tour" of the solar system that would ...