You’ve got to love technology. Thanks to space exploration, we’re given an inside look at the planets like we’d never be able to see them. Jupiter's Great Red Spot viewed by Voyager 1. Last year, NASA ...

Voyager 1 is one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

When Voyager 1 and 2 lifted off from what was then Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in 1977, they were only meant to last for about five years – giving them a comfortable time frame to visit Jupiter, ...

NASA's Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a recent update, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life thanks ...

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Update: Voyager is officially “the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space,” according to NASA. Even the spaciest of space nuts could be forgiven for being a little confused about ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...