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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

She spent 1982-1987 as a post-doctoral researcher in space physics at Imperial College, London. Voyager flybys of Uranus and Neptune brought her back to the US and she joined the faculty at the ...

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

Here’s how it works. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar ...

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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 ...