Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
Previously it was believed Uranus' moons were desolate, desert-like worlds, but now it seems that the data from the Voyager 2 ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft cruised past Miranda in 1986, it captured images of its southern hemisphere. The resulting pictures revealed a smattering of different geological features on its ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years. SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 ...
This robot has the potential to aid in crop management by assisting both large-scale farmers and agricultural experts in ...
On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...
Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...