Nearly 40 years after its launch, the probe continues to gather information and challenge everything we know about space.

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, two spacecraft that would travel farther than any human-made objects had ever gone. Meant to explore the outer planets and carry Earth’s story into ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that – and much more. Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

Since 1977, the Voyager probes have been silently exploring the solar system and beyond. How do these fragile machines survive decades in the cold void, sending signals weaker than a light bulb across ...

Cape Canaveral (WHTM) It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to planet Jupiter and points ...

The space probe contacted ground control for the first time in five months with status updates on its engineering systems. A month ago a NASA team discovered corrupted code caused a lapse in contact.

In this Aug. 4, 1977, photo provided by NASA, the "Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in ...