A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...
The switch should keep the probe, which launched in 1977, alive for another three years. Together, Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled further than any other spacecraft. Voyager 2's demise has been ...
At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...
The plan will keep Voyager 2’s science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 ...
The iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft celebrated its 35th birthday Monday in a milestone for NASA's longest-running mission ever. Voyager 2 launched in 1977 just 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1. The ...
After 46 years of hurdling through space like a man-made bat out of hell, you'd almost be inclined to believe the Voyager space probes will simply continue running trouble-free indefinitely until it ...
On August 20th, 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe was launched to explore the depths of the solar system and potentially beyond. As of July 28th, 2023, the Voyager 2 probe has travelled an astonishing ...
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All five remaining instruments on NASA's venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft are back to gathering science data after power overuse in late January interrupted the probe's operations. NASA made the ...
NASA just hailed its Voyager 2 probe in interstellar space for the first time in more than seven months. Voyager 2's handlers beamed a set of test commands to the spacecraft on Thursday (Oct. 29) ...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft may be out of touch with NASA until mid-October thanks to a slight mishap, but NASA engineers got some good news this afternoon in the form of a carrier signal from the ...