The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during ...

Nasa plans to shut down another instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power, following a similar action on Voyager 1. This step aims to extend the life of the nearly 47-year-old spacecraft, now in ...

NASA is powering down two science instruments aboard its long-running Voyager spacecraft to conserve energy. On Wednesday, the space agency announced that an instrument on Voyager 2, which ...

NASA is shutting down a science instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power and sustain the 47-year-old spacecraft’s mission in deep space. Launched in 1977, both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were tasked ...

In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its instruments. They did it with the Plasma Spectrometer in October 2024, and ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

After nearly 36 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James ...