A gauge on the Voyager home page tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave our solar neighborhood and enter interstellar space. When the ...

As if NASA’s Voyager mission didn’t have enough firsts in its 36-year journey, what with sending the first spacecraft to Uranus, Neptune and, most recently, interstellar space! Now, it has another ...

Voyager 1 has taken 34 years to go from the Earth to this point, traveling at approximately 38,000 miles per hour (61,155 kilometers per hour) after its encounter with Saturn in late 1980. It was ...

Thirty-five years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unstoppable Voyager 1 spacecraft has sailed into a new realm of the solar system that scientists did not know existed. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, have been speeding away ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft on 5th September 1977, some 36 years ago, few envisaged the magnitude and longetivity of the journey it would go on to take. Now having reached a distance ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unstoppable Voyager 1 spacecraft has sailed into a new realm of the solar system that scientists did not know existed. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, have been speeding away ...

Nearly 46 years after their launch, Voyager 1 and 2 will likely soon reach the end of their scientific mission. NASA recently lost contact with Voyager 2 after sending it a bad command by mistake.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct.

NASA has reestablished connection with Voyager 2 after a tense two weeks of not hearing anything from the probe. On July 21st, the agency lost contact with Voyager 2 following a series of planned ...

On Oct. 4, 2012, representatives from NASA’s Voyager mission received a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics at a ceremony in New York. The awards are given for projects that dramatically advance ...

An artist's conception of a Voyager craft journeying through deep space. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images Nuclear fuel lasts a long time. But not forever. "Mission engineers ...