At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a ...

Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

This graphic shows the position of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in relation to the protective bubble created by the sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and ...

No more pussyfooting around. It's official: Pluto has 14 new place names. Most we suspected would be there, but a few are new. Pluto's "heart" now bears the name of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, ...

On the 30th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch, the New Horizons mission salutes its predecessor on the path toward the solar system’s planetary frontier – and beyond. Destined for Pluto and the Kuiper ...

NASA's Voyager 1 has reached the final frontier of our solar system, having traveled through a turbulent place where electrically charged particles from the sun crash into thin gas from interstellar ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...