A mission to Triton and Neptune could unlock their mysteries
A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
7 stunning images of Neptune captured by NASA
NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
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Near-Earth dwarf planet's surface is 90% covered by water
Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...
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Voyager 2
The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...
‘Forget everything you knew’: Scientists reveal the Moon may have been ‘captured, not created’
A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...
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Nasa switches off instrument on Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power
NASA has turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument to conserve power, enabling the spacecraft to continue its mission until the 2030s. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles ...