The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...

November’s night sky offers Venus and a crescent moon shining together as five planets emerge after sunset and a “Super ...

NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

Saturn can help orient you. The ringed planet is somewhat low in the southeast to south at nightfall. Now in Aquarius, Saturn ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

Saturn can help orient you ... Also a moon of Jupiter, Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and the only moon known to have its own magnetic field, which generates auroras in its polar ...

At a time when technology is updated on the fly, the reliance on decades’ old systems for space research has come as both a ...

A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. What it is: The variable ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

The drops of liquid freeze and drift into Saturn’s E ring (a faint ring outside of the ... Ganymede has a thin oxygen atmosphere, and a magnetic field which helps to protect it from the Sun’s ...

that are trapped by our planet's magnetic field, or magnetosphere. The belts prevent dangerous radiation from reaching Earth's atmosphere, but can also pose hazards to nearby spacecraft.