When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...
This incident adds to a series of interventions that have been necessary to keep the Voyager 1 mission active, as its time in deep space has taken a toll on its instruments and caused an ...
This video is from a military exercise held in southern Lebanon on May 21, 2023. It is not from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Listen to Story This video shows Hezbollah fighters ...
The mission's flight team first realized there was an issue with Voyager 1 on Oct. 18, when the spacecraft failed to respond to that command. The team later discovered that the spacecraft had ...
Voyager 1 catapulted out of the plane of the solar system there, Voyager 2 set course for Uranus and Neptune. Originally, only a four-year mission was planned; they have now been traveling for 47 ...