The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...

Voyager 2 is more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion km) from Earth, where it is hurtling at an estimated 34,390mph (55,346km/h) through interstellar space - the space between the stars.

Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 are the only spacecraft ... expected sometime after 2025 - they will continue roaming through space.

“To me, the Voyager Golden Record is a beautiful example of humanity and striving for world peace,” adds propulsion engineer ...

Voyager 2, now journeying through interstellar space and over 13 billion miles from our home planet, could reach its distant destination by 2045.

It stands as an illustration of the ingenuity that the Voyager missions have displayed through the years to adapt continuously to the hostile environments of deep space. Voyager 2: Mission is not ...

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ... The image was assembled from three black and white images taken through color filters. This approximate natural-color image shows Saturn, its ...