Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Voyager 2's made its closest approach to Uranus on Jan. 24, ... The two are now outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the sun that extends beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Today, Voyager 1 is 159 astronomical units from home, and Voyager 2 is at 133 AU, traveling in a different direction. (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and sun, or about 93 million miles.) ...

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

In 1988, just one year before the Voyager 2 encounter with Triton, distortion of light from an occulted star revealed that Pluto had a tenuous atmosphere, to which Triton's is somewhat similar.

Voyager 2 launched to space on Aug. 20, 1977, to take a tour of our solar system’s outer planets. ... Is Pluto a planet? And what is a planet, anyway? Test your knowledge here.

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have crossed the boundaries of the Solar System to uncover an ...

NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

NASA turned off a suite of instruments on Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 after they explored the gas giant planets in the 1980s. Both are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars.

V oyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...