It was 24 January 1986 when Voyager 2 flew by Uranus on its never-ending outbound journey from the solar system. Three and a half years later, on 25 August 1989, the probe flew past Neptune and became the only spacecraft to ever visit Uranus and Neptune.
After those flybys, the ice giants passed from space agencies’ immediate plans in favor of missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury that would largely help human exploration into the solar system.
As science teams and researchers spent 2017 pouring through the wealth of data returned by…
More than two years after New Horizons flew past Pluto, becoming the first human-made object…
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Over two months after its historic flyby of Pluto, New Horizons is sending back a…
Humanity has visited the dwarf planet Pluto – the first-ever Kuiper Belt Object visited by…
Nine years after launching on an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force…