NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited Uranus. Its twin ...

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 showed ...

open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It was also a complicated process because ...

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

That’s even more than NASA’s Voyager probes, which remain the only two satellites that have ever successfully left the Solar ...

On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...

For example, why did it register a strongly asymmetric, plasma-free magnetosphere – something that is unheard of for planets in our solar system – and belts of highly energetic electrons? Voyager 2 ...

Io orbits around Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, which Bolton calls a ... ocean — solving a 45-year mystery started by Voyager 1’s observations. Instead, the volcanoes ...