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

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.) ...

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.

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

Voyager 2 is only the second spacecraft to travel this far out into the solar system. At a distance of about 11 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 2 is well beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Interestingly, Voyager 2, whose trajectory couldn’t have realistically reached Pluto, played a part in making the case for a Pluto flyby. The final Voyager program flyby revealed Neptune’s ...

On August 25, the Pluto-destined New Horizons spacecraft crossed Neptune’s orbit — 25 years to the day after its elder sibling, Voyager 2, swooped in for a close look at the big, blue ice ...

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 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.

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.