That remains just one of the many achievements in Voyager 1’s illustrious resume, the spacecraft currently 15.79 billion ...

In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...

The moon-sailing Argonaut is a lander concept from the European Space Agency (ESA), of which DLR is a part. ESA officials ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

William Lassell, an amateur astronomer, discovered Neptune's moon Triton on October 10, 1846, using his self-constructed 20-foot reflector telescope, a mere 17 days after Neptune's initial ...

The eighth and most distant planet from the sun, Neptune, reaches opposition with the sun on Sept.23, when it will be in its best position for viewing for the year. Neptune is too faint to see with ...

Planetary exploration exists with long-term planning and patience, but the results can be studied and enjoyed for decades after a mission ends. This is the case with the images taken by Voyager 2 and ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...