NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Uranus, becoming the first,and so far, only probe to closely study ...

As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...

Scientists looked at decades' worth of data, combining reports and readings from various spacecraft and new computer modeling ...

Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...

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 ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Uranus emits 12% more heat than it gets from the Sun, contradicting Voyager 2 data. The discovery points to lingering formation heat and strengthens calls for a new NASA flagship mission to the ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Uranus does have an internal heat source like its planetary siblings, which may have led scientists to misinterpret the data ...

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...

The amount of heat emitted from Uranus is also influenced by its extremely long seasons, each lasting over 20 years.