Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin spacecraft can continue exploring interstellar space.

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but both probes are ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ... To put its location and size into perspective, the Voyager space probes ...

It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar ...

It simulated the behavior of the Oort Cloud — a vast, spherical shell of icy bodies at the edge of our solar system, beyond view. It is so remote that even NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft ...

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 ...