NASA’s most distant observers are losing steam as the toll of spending nearly five decades in space adds up. Scientists have announced that they will turn off one additional instrument on each ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have ...

Nasa is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and cosmic ...

Diamond rain on Uranus and Neptune: Recent research suggests that extreme pressures and temperatures deep within Uranus and Neptune create conditions where carbon atoms crystallize into diamonds ...

Its bland exterior belies a dynamic world full of surprises Shi En Kim Reporter Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

The hidden interiors of Uranus and Neptune have long puzzled scientists who try to understand how these distant ice giants formed and evolved. Past proposals included the possibility of diamond rain ...

Named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, Jupiter is certainly the biggest kid on the block in our Solar System. The fifth planet from the Sun, Jupiter, is roughly 461.7 million miles ...

The need for our species to invent new technologies is as old as humanity itself. Through dedication, attention to detail, and much trial and error, the following engineers’ contributions have ...

However, no missions capture the power of RTGs quite like the Voyager missions. NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 ...

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"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft ...