NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007. Last year, Voyager 1 witnessed another exit sign. The number of cosmic rays from interstellar space went up, perhaps because the Sun’s ...

Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2. Illustration. (photo credit: Merlin74. Via Shutterstock) NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy ...

Voyager High-Gain Antenna (HGA) schematic. Note the Cassegrain optics, as well as the frequency-selective subreflector that’s transparent to S-band (2.3-GHz) but reflects X-band (8.4-GHz).

This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — including exoplanets.

A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...

and should do the same for Voyager 2 when it crosses over sometime in the next few years. The PLS looks for the lowest-energy particles in plasma, and can also look for particles moving at ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...