In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets. Now, over 45 years later, these incredible probes are detecting something mysterious beyond the edge of our solar ...

Each record is encased in a sleeve that maps Earth’s location with respect to 14 pulsars, ... Voyager 2 is now nearly 12.4 billion miles from Earth, ...

Voyager 2 is now traveling through interstellar space. As of early November 2018, NASA announced that Voyager 2 had crossed the outer edge of our solar system ( Voyager 1 crossed the boundary into ...

But while engineers can now see a heartbeat – in technical terms, the carrier wave associated with Voyager 2 – they can’t yet read the information signal that shapes the carrier wave, which ...

Voyager 2 is now tapping into its last bit of reserve power from its ... This 'tediously accurate' map of our solar system with the moon scaled to a single pixel would still take 665 monitors laid ...

For now, “this new work explains some of the apparent contradictions,” from the Voyager 2 flyby, Spilker adds in the NASA statement, “and it will change our view of Uranus once again.” You ...

After saving the Voyager 1 spacecraft the past months from a dud memory chip and switching between increasingly clogged up thrusters, it was now Voyager 2’s turn for a reminder of the relentless ...

NASA has detected a signal from Voyager 2 after nearly two weeks of silence from the interstellar spacecraft. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Tuesday that a series of ground antennas ...

Now, NASA has initiated a new power plan to help give Voyager 2 even more time to explore space. Originally launched in 1977, Voyager 2 has been making its way through space for over 40 years now.

NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home.