Voyager 1 and 2 are voyaging into interstellar space, destined to drift for tens of thousands of years past stars, planets, ...

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 ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, have identified a high-temperature region beyond the edge of the solar system. Scientists are now studying this area, nicknamed the ...

Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space. The NASA spacecraft, which left Earth on a September morning 36 years ago, has traveled farther than anyone, or anything, in history. Now, it’s in the space ...

On the 35th birthday of Voyager 2, a moment to pause and praise the old technology that is now at the frontier of space exploration, literally. Think about the different pieces of consumer technology ...

Imagine a fiery wall of gas reaching temperatures up to 50,000 K (equivalent to 90,000 °F). Thankfully, this barrier is not located near a star or at the ...

NASA is ready to call it: Voyager 1 has finally entered into interstellar space, for real this time. And, surprise, the satellite left for the interstellar a year ago, according to an analysis of the ...

Outbound -- Alignment. Voyagers ; Gravity assist ; Message in a bottle -- The Grand Tour. New worlds among the king's court ; Drama within the rings ; Bull's-eye at a tilted world ; Last of the ice ...

On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this ...

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 ...