Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

The paper "Solving the mystery of the electron radiation belt at Uranus: Leveraging knowledge of Earth's radiation belts in a re-examination of Voyager 2 observations" is published in Geophysical ...

Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and it is now so far away that talking to it is becoming painfully slow.

Eight distant worlds hold secrets that still puzzle scientists and spark endless curiosity. Each moon offers a strange allure ...

That remains just one of the many achievements in Voyager 1’s illustrious resume, the spacecraft currently 15.79 billion ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

A faint sound described as a 'ghostly signal’ by global news was detected near Voyager 1. The spacecraft is currently far ...

The eighth and most distant planet from the sun, Neptune, reaches opposition with the sun on Sept.23, when it will be in its best position for viewing for the year. Neptune is too faint to see with ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two Voyager missions NASA launched that year. Thanks to a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voyager 1 was launched into space in 1977 and has been on a one-way journey ever since, pushing the boundaries of how far a machine built by ...