As the spacecraft looked back at the Earth and moon, it also captured the planet Uranus in the distance. "One oversaturated image brought to light a photobomber: planet Uranus, which was 2.9 billion ...

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

Uranus and Neptune are the outermost planets of the solar system and are known as ice giants because they are rich in water.

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

Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue, and Uranus green—but a new study has revealed that ... during the 20th century—including by NASA's Voyager 2 mission, the only spacecraft to fly past ...

The existence of a ring, forming around 466 million years ago and lasting tens of millions of years, could explain several ...

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 ...

NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two ...

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

NASA confirmed in 2018 that Saturn will indeed lose its rings for good. In fact Saturn’s rings are constantly being pulled ...

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

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