When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of touring the outer planets. No one seriously expected them to redraw the ...
Voyager 1 keeps moving farther from Earth than any human-made object. Launched in 1977, it flew by Jupiter and Saturn, sending back images and informa.
Saturn's icy rings, first observed in 1610, span 282,000 km and are 10-100m thick. Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter's faint, dusty rings in 1979, extending ~226,000 km. Voyager 2 found Neptune's 5 rings + ...
When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...
Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — ...
Only two spacecraft have ever truly escaped the solar system, slipping beyond the Sun’s protective bubble into interstellar space. Their measurements are now reshaping how I understand the heliosphere ...
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
Files" to "Farscape," drift back three decades with us as we reminisce over the last great run of science fiction on the small screen.
“It was inherently risky, and space exploration continues to be so,” FSU history professor Ronald Doel said, referring to the Challenger mission.
Jupiter's moon count reaches 95+ official satellites. Explore the history of the Jovian system, from Galileo to the latest NASA discoveries.
Voyager 1 solar system edge revealed a sharp, energetic boundary. Here’s what it found, how NASA verified it and why it matters for science.
Join developer GameXcite for another deep dive into the gameplay mechanics of Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown in this latest trailer for the upcoming strategy game. In this new Star Trek: ...