Capturing the partial solar eclipse from the iconic landmark at Stonehenge was awe-inspiring in more ways than one' ...

(photo credit: Merlin74 ... Both spacecraft left our solar system, with Voyager 1 crossing the heliosphere boundary in 2012 and Voyager 2 in 2018 after its flyby of Neptune.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth. Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for ...

Scheduled for deactivation later this month, Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument measures the various ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from our solar system and galaxy.

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, originally designed to fly by the largest planets in our solar system, are now the most distant objects made by humans. Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles (25 billion ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion ... in the flyby of NASA's Voyager 2 in 1989. However, imaging and confirming the auroras ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

The move is part of an effort to extend the life of the 47-year-old spacecraft, which is currently operating in interstellar space—the vast region beyond our solar system. Suzanne Dodd, Voyager ...