Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
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 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years ...
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...
New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...