In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its instruments.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space ...

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. The Voyager ...

The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early solar system. Over 3,000 KBOs have ...

Why Nasa is switching off instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft - The twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977 ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...

A stunning planet parade is now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are ...