The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being ...

During its 1986 observation of the planet in the first and only flyby, the spacecraft measured a surprisingly strong electron ...

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

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

Nearly two weeks after NASA lost contact with one of its Voyager probes, the space agency said it has detected a faint signal from the historic spacecraft launched in the 1970s to explore the far ...

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.

Traveling through interstellar space for 42 years was bound to take a toll. NASA’s Voyager 2 was designed to withstand one of the longest journeys in deep space — but that doesn't mean it is all ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back its first message from interstellar space, after having left our solar system late last year. This makes it only the second human-made object to ever reach ...

While the Voyager spacecraft are constantly traveling out of the Solar System, sometimes they are getting closer to Earth.