NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... 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 ...

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

This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.

The original mission was meant to last four years as the probe visited Jupiter and Saturn. It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating ...

Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and then kept on going and going. In 2012, it left our cosmic neighborhood and entered the space between stars. It was the first human-made object to leave our ...

followed by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, discovered the presence of aurora-like light shows reminiscent of those on Earth on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The launch of the Hubble Telescope in ...