The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...

has become the second human-made object to leave our Solar System. It was launched 16 days before its twin craft, Voyager 1, but that probe's faster trajectory meant that it was in "the space ...

It was the first human-made object to leave our solar system. Voyager 2 later followed its sibling into interstellar space in 2018. Voyager 1’s distance and age make it challenging to troubleshoot.

After completing their primary mission in 1989, the probes continued their journey, venturing into the far reaches of the solar system and beyond. Now more than 10 billion miles away, Voyager 1 ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went ...

“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... as she studied an image of Io captured by Voyager 1. The revelation sparked a decades-long mystery ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979 ...