Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites ... per hour—the fastest ever recorded on any planet in our solar system. When the Hubble Space Telescope imaged Neptune in ...

It is now recording the conditions outside of the sun's protective magnetic field, or heliosphere, which blankets our solar ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft nearly 12 billion miles from Earth is still phoning home from interstellar space, and a new NASA photo captures ... "grand tour" of the solar system, giving us the ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

It was used to study the solar wind and its interaction with the planets and their moons; and on Voyager 2, should help detect and study the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.

Scheduled for deactivation later this month, Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument measures the various ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from our solar system and galaxy.

An artist's illustration of the Voyager 1 probe ... Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo The Oort cloud — the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system — might sport a pair ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, originally designed to fly by the largest planets in our solar system, are now the most distant objects made by humans. Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles (25 billion ...