But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions - an intense solar wind event - ...

Previously it was believed Uranus' moons were desolate, desert-like worlds, but now it seems that the data from the Voyager 2 ...

In 1986, humanity got its first close look at Uranus's secrets thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. After a lengthy journey, this ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Meanwhile, scientists have uncovered new insights into Uranus, challenging previous understandings of its magnetic field due to unusual solar wind conditions during a 1986 probe flyby. This image is ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.

New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...