Voyager 1 is heading out above the plane of the solar system into space, while Voyager 2 is heading out below the plane. Voyager 1 and 2 both have a radioisotope thermoelectric generator on board ...

The Voyager missions didn’t just expand our knowledge of the universe—they captured our imaginations. From stunning photos of gas giants to groundbreaking data from interstellar space ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Two of the solar system’s most promising environments for finding alien life—Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus—were unveiled by the Voyager mission. Their cores palpitated ...

Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn. The Dodgers keep adding to their payroll. The two-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last July from ...

PRA/PWS package and the shared antenna system. Source: “A Plasma Wave Investigation for the Voyager Mission ... charged particles streaming out from the Sun, or solar wind, is pushed back ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Humanity’s farthest-flung emissary is speaking clearly again after a tense ...

And for the record, Voyager is a 46-year old system at a distance of now 24 billion ... of waiting between sending the patch and finding out if it worked, the age of the computers onboard probably ...