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NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...
It's been almost 40 years since Voyager 2 flew past Uranus, but its readings from that whistlestop flyby have remained some ...
Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out something really interesting. We can track the Voyagers to 0.97 light-years ...
The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in ...
Today in the history of astronomy, Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Jupiter.
On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space ...
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, and after 49 years of travelling, it will reach a milestone in space that was once thought ...
The amount of heat emitted from Uranus is also influenced by its extremely long seasons, each lasting over 20 years.
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...
Uranus does have an internal heat source like its planetary siblings, which may have led scientists to misinterpret the data ...
Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...
But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...