Nearly half a century after it left Earth, a battered spacecraft built with 1970s electronics is closing in on a frontier no human machine has ever crossed. The probe is not only venturing deeper into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...

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Nearly 50 years after launch, Voyager 1 continues to rewrite humanity’s understanding of space — and in 2026, it will mark ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.