Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...
Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...
When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has hacked a backup source of power to keep Voyager 2 working. The switch should keep the probe, which launched in 1977, ...
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. For the past forty years or so they've been speeding along at a clip of over 30,000 miles per hour, and while ...
Eleven billion miles from Earth, NASA's long-lived Voyager 2 probe, still beaming back data 41 years after its launch in 1977, has finally moved into interstellar space, scientists revealed Monday, ...
The iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft celebrated its 35th birthday Monday in a milestone for NASA's longest-running mission ever. Voyager 2 launched in 1977 just 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1. The ...
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They thought it was gonna be a long, long time. NASA has successfully “reestablished full communications” with Voyager 2, an interstellar deep space probe which the agency sent offline with a faulty ...
On December 18, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 entered interstellar space while traveling at 38,000 miles per hour. Now over 12 billion miles/20 billion kilometers from Earth, Voyager 2 was reckoned by NASA ...
When it comes to space exploration, no one has the Voyager missions beat. On October 5, NASA reported that their Voyager 2 spacecraft is nearing our heliosphere’s outer borders, and could soon enter ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has become the second human-made object to enter interstellar space. The probe, which blasted into space 41 years ago, exited the outer boundary of the sun’s heliosphere on ...