NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends beyond the orbit of Pluto The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has become the second human-made object to leave our Solar System.

so we launched spacecraft like the Voyager 1 and 2 probes and NASA's various solar orbiters to study the Sun's effects on the rest of the solar system. Voyagers 1 and 2 are on a one-way trip ...

AN ASTEROID is expected to be hooked into Earth’s orbit tomorrow night, acting a second ‘tiny moon’ for the next two months.

For about 4.5 billion years, our planet has circled the sun on a stable, rhythmic path. Each of Earth's orbits takes ...

Every object in our Solar System is held in place by the ... that the closest part of the Oort Cloud might be 2, 000 times further from the Sun than Earth. Its furthest parts could be as far ...

If it does survive the trek into interstellar space, it won't be the first to get there. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both ...

Special equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

Instead of rocket fuel, LightSail 2 used photons, demonstrating the viability of solar sailing for future space missions.