NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

"Solar system formation models using the new ... basis for understanding what element abundances in giant planet atmospheres can tell us about the formation of planets. We already have our eyes on ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to settle key questions on exoplanets (a planet outside ...

To see the planet's rings, you'll likely need a 12-inch telescope at minimum with a magnification ... parade in January 2025 that'll eventually see all seven planets in our solar system visible in the ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

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