Latest about Voyager
On Jan. 24, 1986, NASA's robotic Voyager 2 probe zoomed by Uranus, giving humanity its first up-close look at the seventh planet from the sun.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — the only object made by humans to leave the solar system — might still be caught in a tsunami-like shock wave that first hit the probe in February.
With new data collected by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, researchers can confirm that the far-flung probe is indeed cruising through interstellar space, as mission scientists announced last year.
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are still going strong after nearly 37 years in space.
Voyager 2, arriving at Jupiter four months after Voyager 1, was actually launched 16 days before its mate.
Before the Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977, a prototype was put through vibration tests.
