What it is: Saturn, the seventh planet from the sun, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft The image was taken 9 million miles (15 million km) from Earth, just as Voyager 2 approached the ringed ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

One year ago, on Nov. 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 became only the second spacecraft in history to leave the heliosphere — the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by our Sun. At a ...

Yes, it is still alive and it still sending signals back to Earth, even though it is about 12.1 billion miles away (19.5 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is the first of its kind to be launched, but ...

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NASA has received a signal from the Voyager 2 spacecraft that it accidentally lost contact with on July 21. Communications with the famous spacecraft, which launched in 1977 and is currently around 12 ...

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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 ...

NASA has lost contact with the legendary Voyager 2 spacecraft after “inadvertently” sending it a command that caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from ...

Editor’s Note (8/4/23): On August 4 NASA announced that it had successfully reestablished communications with Voyager 2. Earth may not hear from one of its most beloved spacecraft until mid-October ...

Why it matters: After spending 45 years in space, the Voyager 2 mission is still going strong. Energy supply isn't what it used to be, though, so NASA is working on new "tricks" that can extend the ...

Voyager 2 can keep sending science back from interstellar space a little longer. NASA's long-running Voyager 2 mission will postpone an instrument shutdown three years to 2026 thanks to a technical ...