While NASA has sent two probes out past our heliosphere—Voyager 1 and 2—there’s still a lot we don’t know about the protective shield around the Solar System. A proposed Interstellar Probe ...

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory ... ever recorded on any planet in our solar system. When the Hubble Space Telescope imaged ...

Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth and Voyager 2 is 13 billion miles (21 billion km) away. That's so far that it can take almost two days for a radio signal to make the ...

The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through ... on a trajectory toward the solar system’s gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and explored the icy giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is ...

The move will buy both spacecraft a bit of extra time on their journeys through the cosmos. The first of the Voyager instruments to go is the cosmic ray subsystem aboard Voyager 1. This instrument ...

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 ...