Voyager 1 used the thrusters for a variety of purposes as it flew by planets such as Jupiter and Saturn in 1979 and 1980, respectively.

Voyager also made the first up-close observations of Saturn’s rings, discovering new thin and faint rings, along with the ghostly features called spokes.

But because Voyager 1’s last planetary encounter was Saturn, the Voyager team hadn’t needed to use the TCM thrusters since November 8, 1980.

On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets that only happens ...

Certain instruments were shut off on Voyager 1 in 1990 to conserve energy because those tools were no longer needed after the spacecraft completed its flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.

Voyager 1 has been heading outward from Earth for almost half a century, but where is Voyager 1 now and how much longer will it be able to stay in space?

Certain instruments were shut off on Voyager 1 in 1990 to conserve energy because those tools were no longer needed after the spacecraft completed its flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.

Voyager 2 would take a different approach, approaching Saturn in 1981 and then flying on to Uranus. NASA hadn’t expected Voyager 1 to continue working much after its Saturn encounter.

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat, switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe to a different set of thrusters.

When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sailed past Jupiter in 1979, it recorded a stunning and unusual phenomenon—plasma waves as it crossed the planet’s bow shock. This haunting sound, captured ...