Professor Irwin said, "Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to 'true' color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Scientists have uncovered the secret ingredient fueling supercharged storms on Uranus and Neptune: methane. Uranus and ...

It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...

Now in Taurus, the Moon passes 5° north of Uranus at 3 A.M. EDT, when the pair is high overhead in the east. You’ll note our ...

The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become ...

The DSN's array of antennas, including the renowned 70-meter antenna, plays a pivotal role in space exploration by enabling communication with distant spacecraft. Its arraying technology and various ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

All these thoughts of photographs of the planets and whatnot take me back to my childhood, when I pored through books ...

Hello everyone! Full moon was yesterday and since this coming Sunday is the first day of autumn, this full moon is the ...

Voyager 2 is such a cool mission: The little probe did flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and became the second ...