What it is: Saturn, the seventh planet from the sun, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft The image was taken 9 million miles (15 million km) from Earth, just as Voyager 2 approached the ringed ...

Imagine sending a message and it taking a whole day to travel at the speed of light to reach its destination. We could make ...

Netherlands-based director Sander van den Berg has taken images from NASA's Cassini orbiter and Voyager spacecraft to create an amazing new video of Saturn entitled "Outer Space." At first, the ...

Voyagers 1 and 2 are exploring the mysterious region between stars called interstellar space. NASA launched the twin probes in 1977 for a five-year mission to trek across the solar system. Nearly 46 ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

Agencies such as NASA are responsible for giving us a more detailed picture of space, literally in the case of technology such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft captured the public imagination in the 1970s and ’80s as Earth’s first ambassadors to the outer planets, providing close-up images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Editor’s Note (8/4/23): On August 4 NASA announced that it had successfully reestablished communications with Voyager 2. Earth may not hear from one of its most beloved spacecraft until mid-October ...

PASADENA, Calif. - Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars. Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of ...

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