For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...
Launched in 1997, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft has been traveling ever since, and it was around 167 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth. It was the first spacecraft to go beyond the heliosphere, ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager spacecraft — are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. Think ...
In a finding that’s as strange as it is fascinating, NASA’s Voyager 1 has entered a region just beyond the heliopause where temperatures skyrocket to an estimated 50,000°C, and yet—against all odds—it ...
Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...