When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of touring the outer planets. No one seriously expected them to redraw the ...

40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have manipulated Uranus' magnetosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

In 1977, two probes launched less than a month apart on a mission to the great beyond. The twin Voyager spacecraft were to travel where no other mission had gone before, exploring what lies outside ...

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When Voyager 1 and 2 lifted off from what was then Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in 1977, they were only meant to last for about five years – giving them a comfortable time frame to visit Jupiter, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do so. Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby ...

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