Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

Voyager 2, the communications pause could have occurred when the probe faced a critical issue — thruster failure — leaving the space agency without a way to save the historic mission.

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day ...

“Neptune has always been elusive," University of Reading planetary scientist Dr James O'Donoghue said at the time. Its auroras "had only been seen by Voyager, and we’ve been trying to see it ...

Finally, although Star Trek: The Next Generation never had a different, darker version of Voyager once or during Season 2, the initial development of the show did incorporate many more dark ...

According to NASA, Voyager 2 is the only human-made object to have visited Uranus and Neptune. It even discovered a 14th moon on Jupiter, and 10 new moons (and two more rings) on Uranus.