While telescopes and the Voyager 2 flyby gave us glimpses of its atmosphere and unusual tilt, many questions remain ...

It's popularly understood that no one can hear you scream in space, and yet, scientists have captured some pretty strange ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more ...

But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, revealing Io’s dynamic surface that resembled a pepperoni pizza, Bolton said.

Together, the observations point to a rigid, mostly solid interior beneath Io’s surface, rather than a global magma ocean — solving a 45-year mystery started by Voyager 1’s observations.

Next, Juno will swing by 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above Jupiter’s center on December 27, logging 645.7 million miles (1.04 billion kilometers) since beginning its investigation of Jupiter ...

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...