Voyager 1 was designed to explore the outer areas of our solar system. Sent out shortly after its slower twin, Voyager 2, the space probe captured astonishing images of planets like Jupiter and Saturn ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980, eschewing Uranus and Neptune because scientists wanted to fly past Titan, Saturn's fascinating moon, and could not do so without ruining the ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

Unlike the 1974 alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune captured by the Voyager spacecraft ... On February 1, Venus and the thumbnail crescent moon will appear close together in the ...

For one night only, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ... In 1977, NASA launched Voyager spacecraft to explore the outer Solar System during a similar alignment. Voyager 2 became the only ...

Voyager 1 and 2, NASA’s 1977 spacecrafts that visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, was able to do so because the organisation decided to use the alignment of the four planets to their ...