You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...

James Elliot and team discovered Uranus' rings via stellar occultation. NASA's Voyager 2 later revealed more details on its ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977, originally tasked with exploring the outer planets. Their groundbreaking discoveries included Jupiter's faint rings, Saturn's complex moons ...

are shutting off one scientific instrument on Voyager 1 and another on Voyager 2. The move will buy both spacecraft a bit of extra time on their journeys through the cosmos. The first of the ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more ...

Although the motor was originally tested to 500,000 steps (enough to make sure it lasted until Voyager 2 reached Saturn in August 1980), the motor will have since completed over 8.5 million steps ...

Over the decades, they have provided groundbreaking discoveries, including Jupiter’s faint ring system, Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2’s historic flybys of Uranus and Neptune—the only ...