The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
For 38 years, the secrets of Uranus have remained just out of humanity’s reach. Now, however, a deep dive into data from NASA ...
“[Voyager] was designed with nearly everything redundant. Having two spacecraft — right there is a redundancy.” Just last month, the Voyager 1 probe experienced a problem with its thrusters ...
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...
Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has ...
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It's been more than 47 years since NASA sent two historic space probes—Voyager 1 and 2—out into the universe, and, against all odds, they're still going. Their journeys have been nothing short ...
The spacecraft has inexplicably turned off one of its radio transmitters, likely because of an unidentified onboard issue.
The Voyager 2 probe may have passed by Uranus ... to the degree it was observed around 4 percent of the time. "If the spacecraft had arrived only a few days earlier, the upstream solar wind ...
NASA's farthest spacecraft, Voyager 1, is running low on power but carries on its journey through interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth ...
Nearly 47 years ago, two NASA spacecrafts were bound for one of the grandest journeys across our solar system to fly by and ...