Pan: Discovered by Mark Showalter in 1990 using images captured by Voyager 2, nine years ... But Mimas continues to puzzle scientists. The small moon orbits closer to Saturn than Enceladus and ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft ... have continued to puzzle scientists in the decades since the historic flyby. Now, a new look at the data has revealed that Voyager 2 happened to zoom by the ...

Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets of our solar system.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

They were the third and fourth spacecraft to visit Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 was the first to visit Uranus and Neptune – providing a treasure trove of information that exceeded anything ...

Over the decades, they have provided groundbreaking discoveries, including Jupiter’s faint ring system, Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2’s historic flybys of Uranus and Neptune—the only ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more ...

Although the motor was originally tested to 500,000 steps (enough to make sure it lasted until Voyager 2 reached Saturn in August 1980), the motor will have since completed over 8.5 million steps ...

Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, on a trajectory toward the solar system’s gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and explored the icy giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is more than 15 ...