Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may ...

Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts around Uranus. In 1986, when Voyager 2 made the first and only flyby of ...

SwRI scientists compared space weather impacts of a fast solar wind structure (first panel) driving an intense solar storm at Earth in 2019 (second panel) with conditions observed at Uranus by Voyager ...

According to Jeff Dean (@JeffDean), the Voyager spacecraft has traveled approximately one light day from Earth in 50 years, which is about 1/1500th of the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star.

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A small button from an ionization-type smoke detector containing 1 microcurie (141 nanograms) of americium-241 dioxide.Andrew Magill /Wikimedia Commons In 1977, two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...

Blue Origin's New Glen NG-2 mission successfully launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Station. The rocket is carrying NASA's Escapade spacecraft and Viasat technology en route to Mars. CAPE ...