Nasa has picked up a "heartbeat" signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost contact with it billions of miles away from Earth, the space agency said. Last month, the spacecraft - exploring the ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been flying for almost 50 years, far surpassing even the wildest dreams of its designers. The ...

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two Voyager missions NASA launched that year.

a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends beyond the orbit of Pluto The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has become the second human-made object to leave our Solar System.

Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.

Voyager 2 is roughly 12,400,000,000 miles from Earth and has been operating for over 45 years, according to NASA’s mission report. While the spacecraft recently received updates to extend its ...

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Voyager Therapeutics (VYGR – Research Report), the Healthcare sector company, was revisited by a Wall Street analyst yesterday. Analyst ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Humanity’s farthest-flung emissary is speaking clearly again after a tense ...

What it is: One of the final photographs of Neptune taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe Where it is: 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from the sun When it was taken: Aug. 25, 1989 When it was ...

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, launched on their initial missions in 1977 to study the distant solar system. They collectively flew by four largest outer solar system planets by 1989 and ...