For 47 years, as the emissary of humankind to the cosmos; it has trekked billions of kilometres and revealed the private ...

(Courtesy: Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley) When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus and Neptune in 1986 and 1989, it detected something strange: neither of these “ice giant” planets has a ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

"If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier ... Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune It was Uranus's radiation belts — alongside its lopsided ...

This has been a long-standing puzzle since the Voyager 2 spacecraft detected this in 1986.” This explains why both Uranus and its solar system neighbor, Neptune, have magnetic fields very ...

the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined. There was a lot more to be learned. A NASA ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. It's currently more than 12 billion miles (19.31 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles ...

Brown says the Voyager missions were vital for expanding our knowledge of the outer solar system, notably Jupiter, Saturn, ...