When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of ...

Voyager Probes Picked Up Something Scientists Didn’t Expect Right on Our Solar System’s Edge ...

It was a threshold crossed in the deepest reaches of space: A spacecraft launched from Earth has now entered new and unexplored territory that may or may not be outside our solar system. A press ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before. Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Golden Record carried by Voyager 1 and 2. Photographs of Jupiter by Voyager 1 on March 24, 1979 and Uranus by Voyager 2 on ...

On August 25, 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft measured drastic changes in radiation levels, more than 11 billion miles from the Sun. Anomalous cosmic rays, which are cosmic rays trapped in the outer ...

The venerable probe has finally departed for interstellar space, but there's a reason the news might give you a feeling of deja vu. Stop us if you've heard this one: A spacecraft flies out of the ...

For 33 years, America’s Voyager spacecraft have been flying toward the edges of our solar system. TIME surveys the most notable interstellar scenes captured by the Voyager’s cameras along the way.

Voyager 1 was launched in September of 1977 and successfully completed its mission of a grand tour of Jupiter and Saturn. Now, 35 years later, it has become the first man-made device to leave the ...