In 1977, a pair of twins were launched into space – Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, with the intent to gift the world with its first glimpse of a close-up view of the outer solar system planets.

Voyager 2's mission is to study the outer planets and then depart the solar system. It's NASA's longest running mission, the spacecraft first being launched in 1977, 16 days prior to the launch of ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft twins, on the other hand, have really proven themselves to be incredibly rugged. Voyager 2 , which is over 43 years old at this point, has been traveling out of our ...

Voyager 2 came within about 50,000 miles of Uranus' cloud tops, providing the first-ever close-up views of the planet, its rings and its moons. A NASA image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.

Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years. “The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the time," according to the lead ...

It took 19 hours for the message to reach Voyager 2, and a return signal was received 19 hours later, NASA said Tuesday. Despite the aging probe’s emptying power stores, NASA expects that ...

Miranda reveals a complex geologic history in this view, acquired by Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986, around its close approach to the Uranian moon.