From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

Each Voyager spacecraft has 65,000 individual parts ... This approximate natural-color image shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites (Tethys, Dione, and Rhea ...

In February 1979, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepared for the exploration of Jupiter and ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour of the cosmos that nearly ended at Saturn. Launched in August and September 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have opened ...

Now, we’ve known about ring rain since the 1980s when NASA’s Voyager mission first noticed mysterious, dark bands that turned out to be ring rain caught in Saturn’s magnetic fields.

By managing power carefully, the Voyager team hopes to keep both spacecraft functioning through ... to measure radio waves emitted by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, revealing details about ...

Covered with discrete CMOS chips, this card bears the “MJS77” designation; “Mariner Jupiter Saturn 1977” was the original name of the Voyager mission. Note the D-sub connectors for inter ...

Hubble Captures the Start of a New Spoke Season at Saturn Feb. 9, 2023 — Since their discovery by NASA's Voyager mission in the 1980s, temporary 'spoke' features across Saturn's rings have ...

The Voyager pin, celebrating the grand tour of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, is the first in the Historic Robotic Spacecraft Series. | Credit: Chop Shop Voting is open through April 14 ...

NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and ... The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission, which launched from Earth in 1997 and reached the ringed gas giant ...