Nasa, Uranus and Moon
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On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in space,
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a new moon orbiting Uranus, raising the planet’s known satellites to 29. The tiny body, about six miles wide, was invisible to Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby and too faint for previous telescopes.
Voyager 1 has been heading outward from Earth for almost half a century, but where is Voyager 1 now and how much longer will it be able to stay in space?
Until then, Voyager 2 and NASA won’t be in contact, and Earth won’t be receiving any data from the probe — but the folks on Earth will keep trying to get a connection, Dodd said. In the ...
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NASA Reconnects with Voyager 1: Interstellar Explorer Overcomes Glitch
In a remarkable feat of engineering, NASA has re-established contact with Voyager 1, the intrepid spacecraft that has ventured further into the cosmos than any other human-made object. After a period of silence caused by an automatic shutdown of its transmitter,
On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two Voyager missions NASA launched that year. Thanks to a rare alignment of the planets,
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