NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...

Although both Voyager craft move pretty fast, Voyager 1 is slightly (well, on the massive velocity scale we're looking at here) faster. It was sent to space to explore Jupiter and Saturn way back ...

NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and ... (Scientists planned this crash on purpose.) Saturn has more known moons than any other planet. With 274 confirmed moons, it has more than all ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

NASA / JPL-Caltech In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets ...

Along the way, it discovered two Jovian moons, Thebe and Metis, as well as five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring around Saturn. Voyager 1 ventured into interstellar space in August 2012 ...

But last November, Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from ... on a grand tour of the giant outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, photographing them and collecting ...

The Voyager 1 was designed to study magnetic fields and weather as it conducted flybys of Jupiter and Saturn before exiting the heliosphere — a pocket of space created by the Sun containing its ...

Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977, with the Jupiter and Saturn systems as its main mission targets. Almost 50 years later, the space probe is still operating more than 14.9 billion miles ...

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — by using the gravity of each to swing to the next. Its planetary mission a success, Voyager 1 continued its journey toward the edge of the solar system, and in 1990 ...