NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

NASA's 45-year-old space probe is one of the farthest traveling crafts. But as Voyager shows its age, a new mission could seek to surpass it.

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 ...

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 ...

A rough diagram of the aneutronic fusion process. RocketStar. View gallery - 3 images ... In 1964, the Soviet Union launched its Zond 2 deep space probe for an anticipated flyby of Mars.

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space ...

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 ...

In space, aerobraking can change the orbit of a spacecraft while minimizing the use of its propulsion system and fuel. Spacecraft that orbit around Earth do so in two types of orbits : circular ...

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.

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 ...