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Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...
Uranus has entered Gemini for the first time in 84 years, and astrologers and social media users are panicking about this transition, believing that it could herald turbulent times.
NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...
NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.
An attempt to re-analyze ultraviolet data collected by Voyager 2 in 2009 wasn’t able to improve the understanding of how fast Uranus was rotating.
Nasa plans to shut down another instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power, following a similar action on Voyager 1. This step aims to extend the life of the nearly 47-year-old spacecraft, now in ...
On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights about the solar system’s seventh planet. Information from the probe ...
On this date data from the Voyager 2 probe led to the discovery of new moons around Uranus.
Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...
Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun.