Voyager 2

Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months.

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Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense

10:49am April 23, 2024

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.

The images taken by Voyager 2 when it passed Neptune in 1989 were originally processed to better reveal its distinctive features, but as a result they made the planet look too blue.

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Don't look so blue, Neptune: Now astronomers know this planet's true color

4:05pm January 05, 2024

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

A NASA image of one of the twin Voyager space probes. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 after mistakenly pointing its antenna 2 degrees away from Earth.

Earth to Voyager: NASA detects signal from spacecraft, 2 weeks after losing contact

2:00pm August 02, 2023

by Emily Olson

The Jet Propulsion Lab lost contact with Voyager 2, which is traveling 12.3 billion miles away from Earth, after engineers mistakenly pointed its antenna 2 degrees away from its home planet.

A NASA illustration depicts the positions of both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, now outside the heliosphere. Voyager 1 left the heliosphere in August 2012, while Voyager 2 left at a different location last month.

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Voyager 2 Bids Adieu To The Heliosphere, Entering Interstellar Space

5:05pm December 10, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The milestone makes the 41-year-old NASA probe just the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, to reach such distant regions. Now, Voyager 2 is over 11 billion miles from the sun — and counting.