During its 1986 observation of the planet in the first and only flyby, the spacecraft measured a surprisingly strong electron ...

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being ...

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

Nearly two weeks after NASA lost contact with one of its Voyager probes, the space agency said it has detected a faint signal from the historic spacecraft launched in the 1970s to explore the far ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

Traveling through interstellar space for 42 years was bound to take a toll. NASA’s Voyager 2 was designed to withstand one of the longest journeys in deep space — but that doesn't mean it is all ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back its first message from interstellar space, after having left our solar system late last year. This makes it only the second human-made object to ever reach ...