Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 2 launched into the solar system 49 years ago on August 20, 1977. Together with Voyager 1, the two probes are now billions ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter 45 years ago, capturing iconic footage. The Voyager probe's movie of Jupiter made history, revealing the planet like never before. See how those images ...

The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now over 15.9 billion miles away. This spacecraft has ventured into interstellar ...

When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sailed past Jupiter in 1979, it recorded a stunning and unusual phenomenon—plasma waves as it crossed the planet’s bow shock. This haunting sound, captured 46 years ...

For nearly 50 years, NASA's Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space's little engine that could. Launched in 1977 along with its twin, Voyager 2, the spacecraft is now soaring more ...

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, launched over four decades ago, collected data in 1978 that suggests the possibility of jets existing above other planets. Reading time 3 minutes There are jets in Jupiter’s ...

Until the mid-1990s, when planets were at last being discovered orbiting distant stars, Jupiter was the largest world known. Eleven times Earth’s diameter and 318 times our planet’s mass, Jupiter ...

The stunning image below was captured by Voyager 1 34 years ago, but Björn Jónsson has just strung together 14 pictures captured by the satellite, which is currently on its way out of the solar system ...

Back in the 1970′s when NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, I remember being mesmerized by a movie created from Voyager 1 images of the movement of the ...