In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Voyager 1 is so far away it’s practically off the map. 25 billion kilometers from Earth, no less, farther than any object ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...

Strauss' "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth.

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

NASA / JPL-Caltech In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets ...

It discovered a few rings around Jupiter. Also, both Voyager 1 and 2 probes spotted volcanoes erupting on the Jupiter's moon, Io. Voyager 2 took longer to reach Jupiter than its sister spacecraft ...