On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

Voyager 1 is transmitting data from 24 billion kilometres away using less than 200 watts of power. Discover how Nasa engineers maintain this 48-year-old spacecraft in interstellar space.

New spacecraft data from Pioneer, Voyager and Juno show that Jupiter is slightly smaller and more flattened than earlier estimates, refining the planet’s measured size and shape.

From the stunning auroras of the spring equinox and the red glow of the lunar eclipse to a planet conjunction, the night sky is putting on a global show this upcoming month that you won’t want to ...

Voyager caught Uranus in a rare magnetic storm, and a 40-year mystery became a mission case for understanding volatile ice giants.

This rare “planet parade” features six planets—Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter—appearing clustered along the ecliptic, the Sun’s apparent path across the sky, creating a stunning ...

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The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher was involved in the death of a fellow Starfleet Academy cadet. But was it murder?

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other ...

Cassini mission data shows Saturn’s moon Enceladus generates Alfvén waves extending over 504,000 km, circulating energy and momentum through Saturn’s magnetosphere, according to Universe Today and ...

The largest moon of Saturn is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don't know exactly how it came ...