When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. The ...

A photo of a mysterious feature on Saturn’s moon that has baffled scientists is now going viral. The planet is some 793 ...

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

Uber CEO weighs in Sadly, interstellar space remains largely empty, meaning Voyager 1 will once again spend Valentine's Day alone. But here on Earth, we can still appreciate the spacecraft that gave ...

In 1990, as Voyager 1 approached the edge of the solar system, NASA commanded it to take a “family portrait” of the planets. Among the images was the “Pale Blue Dot,” a photo of Earth captured from ...

Voyager 1 and 2 were nuclear powered robotic probes about the size of small cars, designed to take photos and measurements of the solar system's outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

However, I assure you this is not an average photo of the night sky, but instead an image captured by by NASA’s Voyager 1 around 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun.

18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon ... two weeks earlier on a mission to explore the outer planets. Voyager 1 passed through the asteroid belt and visited ...