The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster ...

In this diagram, NASA indicates the locations of the two Voyager spacecraft in interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration.

A diagram showing both of NASA's Voyager probes in interstellar space as of November 2018. NASA/JPL-Caltech In 300 years, Voyager 1 could see the Oort Cloud, and in 296,000 years, Voyager 2 could ...

The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between the stars). Voyager 2 continues to operate normally, NASA reports.

Galilean moons diagram. Jupiter. 0. JUPITER DIAMETERS. Io. Europa. 5. Ganymede. 10. ... The discovery by NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe in 1979 of active volcanoes on the nearby moon Io indicated ...

Scientists sent the Parker Solar Probe into the sun’s outer atmosphere — known as the corona — in a bid to gather data that could lead to more accurate predictions of space weather events ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 ...

Space agencies have performed a dazzling aerial feat at both Venus and Mars: they’ve dipped an incoming spacecraft into the planets’ atmospheres to slow it down without wasting precious rocket ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus.While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling ...