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 ...

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 ...

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

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

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 ...

NASA's vast archive of science data, over 100 petabytes and counting, is proving to be a timeless treasure trove for new discoveries. From uncovering hidden moons around Uranus decades after the data ...

Previously, the existence of auroral activity on Neptune was only hinted at, as instruments on NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, which flew by the planet in 1989, and the Hubble Space Telescope were ...

That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. A French-led team studied a decade’s worth of aurora observations at the ice giant to track its magnetic ...