NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ability to talk to the aging spacecraft. Over a half-century, Voyager 1 ...

A global color mosaic shows Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, from images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in August 1989. HELSINKI — China is charting a long-term deep space strategy centered ...

“That’s true for Jupiter, Saturn, Earth and some of the moons of Jupiter as well.” When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in 1986, however, it discovered something unusual.

Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88 As the mission’s top scientist, he opened a window into the farthest reaches of the solar system. The Voyager probes are ...

Triton’s peculiarity doesn’t end there. When Voyager 2 dropped by the Neptunian system, the spacecraft observed five-mile-high plumes bursting out of Triton.

It is named MS Voyager after NASA's Voyager 1 Space Probe mission, which took a photo of Earth from across the solar system on Feb. 14, 1990. The ship's home base is Port Canaveral.

Voyager 2, NASA's longest-running mission, explored Neptune during a historic encounter on Aug. 25, 1989, sending back humanity's first close-ups of the planet.

Triton and Pluto have both been visited once by spacecraft, the former by NASA’s passing Voyager 2 in 1989 and the latter by NASA’s New Horizons probe in 2015.

Voyager 2 left the solar system on Nov. 5, 2018, and is more than 12.5 billion mi. (20 billion km) away. Both craft continue to whisper hoarsely back to us.

He took it anyway, and from the mission’s first encounter with Jupiter in 1979 to its final flyby of Neptune in 1989, Stone became the scientific face of the Voyager mission.

Ed Stone, who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, has died.