Voyager 2 spent over four decades journeying through the outer solar system. In 2018, it became only the second human-made ...

Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes embarked on a journey unlike any in human history. Over four decades later, they ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...

Since Voyager ... “the solar system’s edge.” The solar wind should slow abruptly as it presses against the space beyond, and Voyager saw just such a change. A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw ...

Voyager 2 sent back spectacular pictures of the ice ... imaging Uranus regularly as it moves through the Solar System on its 84 (Earth) year orbit. Using data from the telescope collected between ...

while Voyager 2 reached the boundary in 2018, traveling beyond the protective bubble surrounding the solar system known as the heliosphere. The Voyager probes were the first spacecraft to cross ...

"When it goes online in 2029, the new Canberra dish will be the last of six parabolic dishes constructed under NASA's Deep ...

From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...