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 ...

Meanwhile, Voyager 2's sister spacecraft, Voyager 1, is still broadcasting and transmitting data just fine from a slightly farther vantage point of 15 billion miles away. Correction Aug. 3, 2023 ...

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.

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 ...