Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the ice giant’s strange magnetic environment. By ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach one light-day from Earth in November 2026, emphasising the immense scale of ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

Robotic space probe Voyager 1, the most distant object ever sent from Earth, will reach one light day away from Earth next year, a feat that has taken almost half a century to achieve.

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

American scientist heads the Carl Sagan Center and researches the potential for humans to inhabit the extreme environments of ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Jupiter shines at magnitude -2.67 this week, the brightest it will be until October 2034. It will be easy to spot in the ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

After passing Earth, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly close to Jupiter and its moon Eupheme in March 2026, marking a key moment in its outbound journey ...