Voyager 2
It’s Time to Go Back to Uranus. What Questions do Scientists Have About the Ice Giants?
It seems crazy that Uranus was discovered in 1781 yet here we are, in 2024 and we have only sent…
Voyager 1 Has Another Problem With its Computer System
For more than 46 years, the Voyager 1 probe has been traveling through space. On August 25th, 2012, it became…
One of Neptune's Dark Spots Finally Seen From Earth
Using the ESO's VLT, an international team of observers was able to study Neptune's Great Dark Spot with a ground-based…
Four of Uranus’ Moons Might Have Liquid Oceans, Too
The study of ocean worlds, planetary bodies with potential interior reservoirs of liquid water, has come to the forefront in…
Scientists Examine Geological Processes of Monad Regio on Neptune’s Largest Moon, Triton
In a recent study submitted to the journal Icarus, a team of researchers at the International Research School of Planetary…
New Horizons is Now 50 Astronomical Units Away From the Sun
As the New Horizons spacecraft hurtles out towards interstellar space, it has now reached an historical milestone. On April 17,…
The Only Radio Antenna Capable of Communicating with Voyager 2 Came Back Online During Repairs and Upgrades. Contact Re-established
“Voyager 2, this is Earth calling. Do you read?” Last week, the answer was finally “yes.” And thankfully, after eight…
Neptune & Triton – August 31, 1989.
Image-processor extraordinaire Kevin Gill has reached back in time to give us a new image of Neptune and its moon…
New Find Shows Uranus Loses Atmosphere to its Magnetic Field
NASA’s researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center recently did just that, looking at Voyager 2’s lone encounter with the…
Voyager 2 Went Into Fault Protection Mode, But Engineers Brought it Back Online
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft went into fault protection mode on Tuesday January 28th. The fault protection routines automatically protect the…