This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed the 'Pale Blue Dot', is part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames ...

open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It was also a complicated process because ...

His interest in space can be traced back to the images of the solar system that NASA was returning to Earth in the '80s and '90s. 'The big thing was a television series called The Planets. I must have ...

The Voyager missions didn’t just expand our knowledge of the universe—they captured our imaginations. From stunning photos of gas giants to groundbreaking data from interstellar space ...

He said both probes had now "made it into interstellar space" and that Voyager 2's date of departure from the Solar System was 5 November 2018. On that date, the steady stream of particles emitted ...

For example, why did it register a strongly asymmetric, plasma-free magnetosphere – something that is unheard of for planets in our solar system – and belts of highly energetic electrons? Voyager 2 ...