This close-up view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1 ... cold and remarkably clear atmosphere. To date, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the distant, gaseous giant.

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Jupiter is a massive ball of gas. Its clouds are composed of ammonia and water vapor drifting in an atmosphere of hydrogen ... In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped by the gas giant ...

But when Voyager ... like Jupiter. Or so they thought. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977, originally tasked with exploring the outer planets. Their groundbreaking discoveries included Jupiter's faint rings, Saturn's complex moons ...

In April of 1978, barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut down by fault-protection algorithms on the spacecraft that failed to ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ... protects our atmosphere from solar winds that emanate from the sun. Without it, our atmosphere ...

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, a new study published in Nature Astronomy using data from Juno suggests that Jupiter’s atmosphere includes around 0.25% water ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments ...