Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system’s eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager ...

More than 30 years have passed since the Voyager 2 fly-bys of Uranus and Neptune. I discuss a range of lessons learned from Voyager, broadly grouped into process, planning, and people. In terms of ...

Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets.Despite its name, this was the ...

On December 18, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 entered interstellar space while traveling at 38,000 miles per hour. Now over 12 billion miles/20 billion kilometers from Earth, Voyager 2 was reckoned by NASA ...

NASA lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft—the second-most distant object ever built by humans and flung into space—nearly two weeks ago due to an errant command sent to the probe. This caused ...

NASA's Voyager 2 probe has phoned home. The iconic spacecraft has been doing that reliably for decades, but it's tremendously far away from Earth, and that can make communication difficult. Last month ...

The probe, which launched in 1977, left the solar system in 2018. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Update for 1:30 p.m. ET: NASA's ...

The iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft celebrated its 35th birthday Monday (Aug. 20) in a milestone for NASA's longest-running mission ever. Voyager 2 launched in 1977 just 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2's plasma science instrument — ...