An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army ...

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its ... are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops very near the ...

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently exploring where nothing from Earth has ever flown before. Launched in 1977, it's now on a mission to go as far away from the solar system as possible ...

Back in the summer of 1977, the space agency launched Voyager 1 and 2 toward Jupiter and Saturn to explore those worlds up-close for the first time. But the space probes didn't stick around ...