Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...

were included aboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. A team led by astronomer Carl Sagan assembled the content of the records, which feature 115 images, spoken greetings in 55 languages and a variety of ...

Richard Branson already saw the blackness of space traveling at nearly Mach 3 with his company Virgin Galactic. Now he’s ...

In 1962, Mariner 2 revealed Venus for the first time ... Uranus in 1986, and Neptune in 1989. And don't forget the Viking landers in the mid-1970s, which proved the non-existence of little ...

The Hubble space telescope captured these images of the Pillars of Creation ... have crossed the termination shock: Voyager 1 in 2004 and Voyager 2 in 2007. Voyager 1 officially reached ...

New insights from Voyager 2 suggest Uranus' moon Miranda may have housed a deep ocean, shaping its unique features.

Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...

NASA has remotely disabled one of the science instruments on its Voyager 2 spacecraft in response to ... The probe eventually conducted flybys of Uranus and Neptune (the two other gas giants ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.