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

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

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

According to Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, there may be another facet to this mystery that hasn't yet been considered: Viking may indeed have ...

A shelter-in-place has been in effect for more than an hour as police search for a wanted man near the La Quinta Inn on the ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Artemis 2 was initially slotted for a December 2024 liftoff, but that schedule was delayed in January 2024. NASA said several ...

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 ...

Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

and it overtook Voyager 2 on December 15, 1977. The spacecraft is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The spacecraft was the first to cross the heliosphere - the ...