On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this ...

And yet, at age 27 and counting, the ISS is getting a bit long in the tooth. Most of the nations that built ISS have agreed ...

Voyager 1 has been heading outward from Earth for almost half a century, but where is Voyager 1 now and how much longer will ...

Until then, Voyager 2 and NASA won’t be in contact, and Earth won’t be receiving any data from the probe — but the folks on Earth will keep trying to get a connection, Dodd said. In the ...

On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...

Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now has just three running after NASA turned off another gadget to ...

The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday. The moon ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has detected an unexpected hot and energetic \"firewall\" just beyond the heliopause, ...

Home > Science NASA Extends Voyager's Journey Through the Cosmos By Powering Off 2 Scientific Instruments The move will buy Voyager 1 and 2 some extra time as their power supplies dwindle.

There's more bad news for NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered another moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s natural satellite count ...