a little less than four times the distance of the outermost planet Neptune." However, the scientists' most surprising realization was that the flyby of an alien star billions of years ago could ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
NASA's Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to see Neptune in all its gaseous glory, during a 1989 flyby. No other spacecraft have visited the icy, blue planet. So it's been three decades since ...
As early as the 1840s, a tricky calculus foretold the existence of a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune. Calculations based on Neptune’s mass suggested that the ice giant’s orbit, and that of ...
Sailing onward, the probe carried out a Jan. 1, 2019 flyby of Arrokoth, a Kuiper Belt Object, or KBO, located in a region of space beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. There are scads of other ...
US-based space agency NASA has announced that its James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest view of Neptune 's rings ... to observe Neptune during its flyby in 1989.