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This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn. The spacecraft is now 124 times farther from the Sun than we are, ...

Keeping Voyager Alive: NASA’s Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as the Iconic Mission Nears Its ... and look for little moons around Jupiter and see if I could spot the rings around Saturn.

LOS ANGELES NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before. Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft ...

On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint ...

However, no study so far has definitively spotted rings around any of the solar system's 300-odd moons. (A 2008 study claiming that Jupiter's moon Rhea possessed a ring turned out to be a false ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot was seen during Voyager's 1979 flyby. NASA/JPL Among IBEX’s key contributions is the discovery of a ribbon of energetic neutral atoms draped across the heliosheath.

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft's mode of communication to one using less power.

Uranus: Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus.Its findings may have misled us for 40 years. When will Saturn's rings disappear? For the past few months, Saturn's rings have been appearing ...