As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, embarked on a historic journey to explore the outer planets of our ...

OVER AND OUT The Voyager 2 spacecraft has crossed into interstellar space, six years after its twin probe, Voyager 1.The two spacecraft are providing an unprecedented look at the edge of the sun ...

The unmanned Voyager 1 and 2 probes were launched in 1977 on a mission to visit all the outer planets of the solar system. See how the Voyager spacecraft worked in this SPACE.com infographic here.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft popped free of the heliosphere — the huge bubble of charged particles that the sun blows around itself — on Nov. 5, 2018, more than six years after the probe's ...

NASA's long-running Voyager 2 mission will postpone an instrument shutdown three years to 2026 thanks to a technical feat by engineers. The change will allow the mission, which launched in 1977 ...

NASA has restored full communications with its Voyager 2 spacecraft following weeks of silence. The agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Friday that NASA's Deep Space Network facility in ...

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft twins, on the other hand, have really proven themselves to be incredibly rugged. Voyager 2 , which is over 43 years old at this point, has been traveling out of our ...

Voyager 1’s departure point was about 122 au from the Sun, while Voyager 2 exited at 119 au from the Sun. According to scientists working on the Voyager 2 mission, these slightly different distances ...

Voyager 2, launched August 20, 1977, is now racing through space just beyond the edge of the Solar System. “On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA’s Voyager 2 ...

Voyager 2 trails its twin in interstellar space at more than 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from Earth. At that distance, it takes more than 18 hours for a signal to travel one way.

Voyager 2’s new interstellar status is based on data from its Plasma Science Experiment (PLS), which logged a decrease in particles around the spacecraft that had been ejected from our sun.