On Sept. 1, 1979, NASA's robotic space probe Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Pioneer 11 launched in 1973 on a mission to explore the Asteroid Belt, Jupiter and Saturn. It ...

Today, Pioneer 11, the brainchild of Bryan Gomez and Alex Hastings, shared their latest single, “Hero of Modernity,” with Darkside’s Dave Harrington. The song comes from their forthcoming album ...

On April 5, 1973, exactly 40 years ago, Pioneer 11 blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a risky mission that would take the small satellite dangerously close to Jupiter's surface and through Saturn's ...

On February 23, 1990, NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft left the solar system! This was the second spacecraft to travel beyond the planetary part of our solar system, which ends at Neptune's orbit. An ...

An artist's view of a Pioneer spacecraft heading into interstellar space. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 are on trajectories that will eventually take them out of our solar system. An artist's depiction of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 12 (UPI) --As NASA and private industry prepare for a U.S. return to the moon after more than five decades, observers fondly remember early ventures that traveled deep into ...

Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter the planet Saturn, NASA’s flagship mission to the ringed planet, Cassini, is entering the final two weeks of its ...

Editor's Note: JR Minkel is in St. Louis this week for the annual "April meeting" of the American Physical Society. See his other blog posts on dark matter, the Higgs boson and the timeline for the ...

Pioneer 11 have gained a great deal of attention and acclaim for their psychedelic covers of popular records, and are now planning on taking their artistic direction to the next level with a new ...

Named after a NASA space probe launched in 1973, L.A. duo Pioneer 11 signal their intergalactic influences pretty clearly. That mission did not go to plan, however, and the original Pioneer 11 is ...

In the early 1970s, NASA sent two spacecraft on a roller coaster ride towards the outer Solar System. Pioneer 10 and 11 travelled past Jupiter (and Saturn in Pioneer 11’s case) and are now heading out ...