NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

By the time Voyager’s primary mission ended with Voyager 2's 1989 Neptune encounter, earthlings had the 80486, the Gameboy ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

On September 5, 1977, the power situation was a good deal healthier when the mission got underway. Launched just over two weeks after Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was scheduled to make flybys of Jupiter and ...

Good morning! I’m raiding the Facebook Underappreciated Survivors group again today, and I’ve found two cheap vehicles with ...

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

To be honest, when I first came across photos of Jupiter and Saturn, I jokingly complained to my friends that these two planets looked like a spilled paint palette. But then I did some research and ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system.

The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded.Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the ...