while Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) away, according to NASA. Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and ...

Meanwhile, Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument ... fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Instruments necessary for collecting data during the planetary ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have just kept swimming – or zooming through space, collecting data from interstellar space farther than any other mission.

Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the solar system, making flybys of all our planets – just not Pluto, which was still classified as a planet at the time. After successfully ...