NASA just brought Voyager 1’s dead thrusters back to life—right before the spacecraft goes quiet for nearly two years.

Here's what to know about when and why Saturn's rings regularly disappear from our view, and when we'll see them again. Uranus: Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

This highly enhanced color view of Saturn’s rings was assembled from multiple images taken by Voyager 2. The enhanced colors are used to illustrate possible chemical variations in the ring material.

Voyager 1 detected a small ring around Jupiter and many of Saturn's moons during its flybys. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, providing data about these ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

Because she understood this particular secret so well, she continued to contribute to the Voyager mission as the fly by images of Uranus, which has rings similar to Saturn's, were being gathered ...

size and distribution of material in Saturn's rings. The CRS has the highest sensitivity of any of Voyager's sensors, and looks for very high energy particles from the sun and other galactic sources.

Voyager 2, and accomplished its main missions by observing Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn and its rings in 1980. It has since continued to fly into deep space at speeds of up to 56,000 km per hour ...

along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons. The two probes discovered three new moons, studied the ring system in ...