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As NASA’s Voyager probes push into interstellar space, they’ve detected something scientists never expected—mysterious ...
Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the outdated spacecraft, and passing on the knowledge of the Voyagers to the ...
That’s the premise behind “Utopian Hotline,” an unusual, immersive performance piece presented at the Museum of Science ...
When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...
It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.
Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...
A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial objects—including exoplanets ...
William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...