In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

The seventh planet from the sun was first discovered on 13 March 1781 by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer.

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

A Clue to What Lies Beneath the Bland Surfaces of Uranus and Neptune Nov. 25, 2024 — When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

The space agency said Wednesday that a sensor on Voyager 2 that analyses charged particles and cosmic rays would be turned ...

James Elliot and team discovered Uranus' rings via stellar occultation. NASA's Voyager 2 later revealed more details on its ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...

NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space ...