Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn, already visible to the naked eye, will be joined by Mercury, Neptune & Uranus in a rare ...

"If Voyager 2 had left in 1980, it would have taken until 2010 to get to Neptune. I don't think it would have won support. Who's going to fund such a thing?" Getty Images In 2024 it was possible ...

Uranus: Voyager 2 captured the first close-up images of Uranus, revealing its unique axial tilt and faint ring system. Neptune: Voyager 2 also delivered images of Neptune's deep blue atmosphere and ...

Javier Torres/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Astronomers atop ... the pair swooped past Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 later visited Uranus and Neptune. But perhaps the mission’s ...

There are no stars in the sky for the same reason you don't see stars during the day on Earth, according to NASA: The bright ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Such images would help researchers understand ... the pair swooped past Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 later visited Uranus and Neptune. But perhaps the mission's most iconic gift to the ...

Data gathered in the 1980s by the Voyager 2 spacecraft led to images that depicted Uranus with a pale cyan appearance while Neptune was computed to be a much richer, deep azure. Oxford professor ...

Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, and quickly carved a path as a milestone in space exploration. It was the first spacecraft to pass Uranus and Neptune; the detail these two remote bodies ...

On this date, Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona ...