It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.

As Voyager 1 had already had its successful encounter ... On August 25, 1989 – exactly eight years after a similar flyby with Saturn – Voyager 2 made its closest approach of Neptune, giving ...

This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.

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 ...

was the first to capture close-up images of Saturn during its flyby in 1979 The Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched by NASA in 1977, conducted a flyby of Uranus in 1986, providing the first close-up ...

By the time the spacecraft finished its flyby on April ... its closest approach to Saturn, then passing Mimas, Enceladus, Rhea, and Hyperion. And with that, Voyager 1’s exploration of the ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...