Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2. Illustration. (photo credit: Merlin74. Via Shutterstock) NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 are the only probes to cross into interstellar space, but their outdated instruments can’t fully analyze the heliosphere’s boundaries. The heliosphere blocks cosmic ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 to take a tour of the outer solar system and then journey beyond it. Each craft was equipped with three RTGs, providing a total of ...

A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007. Last year, Voyager 1 witnessed another exit sign. The number of cosmic rays from interstellar space went up, perhaps because the Sun’s ...

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This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — including exoplanets.

This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — including exoplanets. Uranus just got a little more time on its hands.

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

The first measurement of Uranus’s rotation came from the Voyager 2 probe, which made its closest approach on 24 January 1986. Researchers at the time determined that the planet’s magnetic ...