Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

After 45 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 & 2 are still making history! These legendary probes have traveled beyond our solar ...

Voyager 2, the second spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit, has ventured to the very edge of our Solar System, delivering unprecedented insights into the farthest reaches of space. This video takes ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

LOS ANGELES NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before. Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft ...

Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images. Skip to main content. CLOSE. Thank you!

For almost 48 years, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled across the Solar System and beyond. The missions have been pivotal in our understanding of the gas giant planets of the Solar System, and ...

Recount Voyager 1's interstellar odyssey that outlived NASA expectations Launched in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to travel beyond our solar system into interstellar space in ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, known as the father of modern astronomy, discovered Io on January 8, 1610. But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts ...