A parade of seven planets will appear in the night sky tonight, creating a striking display that won't be seen again until 2040. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will form ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

For nearly five decades, the twin Voyager spacecraft have pushed the boundaries of human exploration, venturing deeper into ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more than 8.5 ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977, originally tasked with exploring the outer planets. Their groundbreaking discoveries included Jupiter's faint rings, Saturn's complex moons ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

Although Voyager 2 was launched first, Voyager 1 took a faster route ... It detected a faint ring around Jupiter and identified two new Jovian moons, Thebe and Metis. Upon reaching Saturn, the ...

NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...

Engineers shut down the cosmic ray subsystem instrument on Voyager 1 on February 25. This tool, which consists of three telescopes that study cosmic rays, helped ...

Over the decades, they have provided groundbreaking discoveries, including Jupiter’s faint ring system, Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2’s historic flybys of Uranus and Neptune—the only ...