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

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

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, ...

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 ...

This has been the case with NASA's twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. In order to save power so that both objects can continue to explore space, experts have shut down the cosmic ray ...

I’m often asked about the space probes that are leaving the solar system, never to return. There are five of them: Pioneer 10 ...

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

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

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

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