Despite these limitations, the Voyager mission remains one of NASA's most significant achievements. Since their launch in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have revolutionized our understanding of the ...

Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's ...

Voyager 2 reached Uranus, the seventh planet in our solar system ... Jasinski previously worked on NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury. Out of the thousands of orbits made by this spacecraft around ...

Mission controllers commanded the spacecraft to switch back to the primary receiver, but that failed again, leaving Voyager 2 without any way to be commanded from the ground. Luckily, the fault ...

Recent analysis suggests that Uranus and its five largest moons might not be as cold and lifeless as once believed. Instead, these moons could harbor hidden oceans, with conditions potentially ...

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter ...

Two of the solar system’s most promising environments for finding alien life—Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus—were unveiled by the Voyager mission. Their cores palpitated ...

A NASA backgrounder on the Voyager missions shows that a data storage was ... recorder that used a 1,076′ (328 m) long reel of 1/2″ (12.5 mm) wide magnetic tape which recorded data on eight ...