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

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed the 'Pale Blue Dot', is part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames ...

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system, entering interstellar space in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The pair were originally intended to study the ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour of the cosmos that nearly ... launched 40 years ago and currently departing the solar system to drift forever among the stars.

For example, why did it register a strongly asymmetric, plasma-free magnetosphere – something that is unheard of for planets in our solar system – and belts of highly energetic electrons? Voyager 2 ...

“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

The DTRs in both spacecraft performed flawlessly from their launch in 1977 and through the entire Grand Tour mission ... course out of the solar system. In 2007, the DTR in Voyager 1 was shut ...