The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive plutonium.

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

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

This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — ...

Voyager High-Gain Antenna (HGA) schematic. Note the Cassegrain optics, as well as the frequency-selective subreflector that’s transparent to S-band (2.3-GHz) but reflects X-band (8.4-GHz).

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

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

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 ...

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...