NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited Uranus. Its twin ...

The probes were designed to take advantage of a rare alignment of outer planets, which occurs about every 176 years, to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

This highly enhanced color view of Saturn’s rings was assembled from multiple images taken by Voyager 2. The enhanced colors are used to illustrate possible chemical variations in the ring material.

After leaving Earth behind, Voyager 2 embarked on what NASA termed the "Grand Tour," visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It continued outward, becoming the second mission to leave the ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

On this date, Jan. 26, 1981, NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar ...