Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 2 took this image of Saturn on Aug. 11, 1981, when the spacecraft was 9.1 million miles from Earth. What it is: Saturn, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets.Despite its name, this was the ...

This graphic shows the position of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in relation to the protective bubble created by the sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the ...

In 1977, NASA launched an ambitious mission: Two spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 blasted off to investigate Jupiter and Saturn. They’re still gathering data today—now, in interstellar ...

Banner image: Artist's depiction of the Voyager spacecraft. (Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL) For nearly 50 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space’s little engine that could ...