17 Spacecraft have visited every planet

We’ve been exploring space for more than 60 years, and have been lucky enough to get close-up pictures of dozens of celestial objects. Most notably, we’ve sent spacecraft to all of the planets in our Solar System – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – as well as two dwarf planets, Pluto and Ceres. The bulk of the flybys came from NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which left Earth more than four decades ago and are still transmitting data from interstellar space. Between them the Voyagers clocked visits to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune thanks to an opportune alignment of the outer planets.