When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It was 40 years ago today (March 5) that Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter, revealing a surprising ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter 45 years ago, capturing iconic footage. The Voyager probe's movie of Jupiter made history, revealing the planet like never before. See how those images ...

It was 40 years ago today that a NASA spacecraft revealed strong evidence that an icy moon of Jupiter may be able to host life. Voyager 2 flew by the Jupiter system on July 9, 1979, and discovered a ...

Voyager 2's Jupiter flyby occurred on July 9, 1979, at a distance of 404,003 miles (650,180 kilometers). The spacecraft's observations confirmed the Great Red Spot as a storm system and discovered ...

Since their launches nearly 40 years ago, the Voyager missions have changed how we look at our solar system. In August and September 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched into space, on a ...

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft embarked on a Grand Tour of the outer solar system, a feat made ...

The Voyager missions provided unprecedented close-up images of Jupiter's atmosphere, revealing complex atmospheric dynamics, including the Great Red Spot's interaction with neighboring features and ...

There are jets in Jupiter’s magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream. You may remember Voyager 2. It ...

The Voyager probes are humanity’s longest running spacecraft as they have been flying since 1977. Both Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 are now in interstellar space, and though their power sources are ...

A group of seven Swedish amateur astronomers have achieved their goal of replicating the Voyager probe’s iconic 1979 flyby of Saturn by using images taken with their own ground-based telescopes. Back ...

The stunning image below was captured by Voyager 1 34 years ago, but Björn Jónsson has just strung together 14 pictures captured by the satellite, which is currently on its way out of the solar system ...