open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It was also a complicated process because ...

The covers contain explanatory diagrams with instructions for playing the record, and a pulsar map that provides ... ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired ...

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

“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, ...

For example, why did it register a strongly asymmetric, plasma-free magnetosphere – something that is unheard of for planets in our solar system – and belts of highly energetic electrons? Voyager 2 ...