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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

There's more bad news for NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles ...

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

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 ...