A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

Nasa has detected a “heartbeat” signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost contact with it billions of miles away from Earth. Mission controllers stopped hearing from Voyager 2 more than a week ago ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have revealed surprising truths about the farthest reaches of our solar system. Nearly 15 ...

After 42 years and more than 18 billion kilometres, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has crossed the barrier that separates the part of space dominated by our Sun from interstellar space. Voyager 2's ...

Decades-old data from Voyager 2 has revealed something new about the solar system's oddball planet When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in January of 1986, it gave us our first up-close ...

After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the ...

NASA has decided to turn off one of Voyager 2’s five remaining instruments—yet another sign that the space probes may be nearing the end of their historic missions. In an October 1 announcement, the ...

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Nearly 40 years after its launch, the probe continues to gather information and challenge everything we know about space.

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 1977, spacecraft Voyager 1 celebrates 40 years in space on Tuesday. Its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, celebrated the same anniversary last month on Aug. 20. Here's a look back at some of the ...