As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Uranus, becoming the first,and so far, only probe to closely study the icy giant. But what did Voyager 2 see in its final moments as it ...

Scientists looked at decades' worth of data, combining reports and readings from various spacecraft and new computer modeling ...

Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Uranus emits 12% more heat than it gets from the Sun, contradicting Voyager 2 data. The discovery points to lingering formation heat and strengthens calls for a new NASA flagship mission to the ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune each emit more energy than they receive from the Sun, meaning they have comparatively warm ...

Uranus does have an internal heat source like its planetary siblings, which may have led scientists to misinterpret the data ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...