Nearly 46 years after their launch, Voyager 1 and 2 will likely soon reach the end of their scientific mission. NASA recently lost contact with Voyager 2 after sending it a bad command by mistake.

Despite its 484-million-mile (778 million kilometers) distance, the Sun still has a measurable impact on Jupiter, generating jets of plasma around the planet. But it turns out they’ve been hiding from ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

NASA’s aging interstellar probe is gradually losing power, forcing the space agency to shut down one of its science instruments to conserve its energy. Launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission has ...

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Martian dust seems to have claimed another victim: China confirmed it is unable to reestablish contact with its Zhurong rover, which has been scraping around in the dirt of the Red Planet since it ...

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced this week that it was turning off an instrument on one of its spacecraft in an effort to conserve power. On Tuesday, NASA said it shut ...

Cape Canaveral (WHTM) It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to planet Jupiter and points ...

NASA lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft—the second-most distant object ever built by humans and flung into space—nearly two weeks ago due to an errant command sent to the probe. This caused ...