Science news articles about 'voyager spacecraft'

Voyager examines energy and magnetic forces at the solar system's edge.

... system and headed out toward the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. "The Voyager spacecraft are making fascinating observations of the local conditions at two points beyond ...

... 2004. The IBEX sky maps also put observations from NASA's Voyager spacecraft into context. The twin ... Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In 2007, Voyager 2 followed Voyager 1 into the interstellar boundary. ...

By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.

... moons - and most other bodies orbiting far from the Sun - were cold, icy, and probably barren. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by in the late '70s, its images of liquid on Jupiter's moons surprised ...

... Earth appeared in a 1990 photograph taken by the Voyager spacecraft from near the edge of the solar system ... 18 and June 4, 2008 were made when the spacecraft was between 17 million and 33 million miles ...

The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.