Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft embarked on a Grand Tour of the outer solar system, a feat made ...
Voyager 1 is about to go where no human-carrying spaceship has gone before. June 15, 2012— -- Fifty-five years after humans first escaped the bounds of Earth and launched a satellite into orbit, ...
The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in this ...
There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...