Along the way, the spacecraft made history time and again, sending back startling scientific data and images for ... when Voyager 2 was nearly 6 million miles from Jupiter. The smallest features ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

But long before that, Voyager 2 stopped by Uranus, coming within 50,600 miles of Uranus' cloudtops. While encountering the ...

Since Galileo first laid telescope-enhanced eyes on Jupiter, scientists have continued to study the curious world from both the ground and the sky. In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft ...