On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this ...

This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...

I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) has issued a shelter-in-place alert on Thursday, Nov. 11, around 5 p.m., for ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby revealed Uranus’s unusual magnetic structure. Study links the magnetosphere’s distortion to an intense ...

In August 2012, Voyager 1 made history as it entered interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ...

New insights from Voyager 2 suggest Uranus' moon Miranda may have housed a deep ocean, shaping its unique features.

NASA has received a message from an interstellar explorer located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth after it failed ...