The Voyager 2 space probe will be on its own for nearly a year as its primary means of communication with Earth is undergoing upgrades. NASA says Australia's Deep Space Network radio antenna will be ...

When NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in the late 1970s, their mission was to study the outer planets. Few could have predicted that decades later, these spacecraft would still be sending back ...

Scientists taking another look at data collected from the Voyager 2 space probe from more than 30 years ago have discovered that the gas giant Uranus appears to have a giant magnetic bubble that is ...

NASA launched the twin Voyager probes in 1977 on a mission to study the outer solar system and beyond. Now, almost 50 years later, both spacecraft are still going strong. Well, Voyager 2 was doing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited Uranus.