Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

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

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

NASA Study Reveals Uranus’ Moon ‘Miranda’ With Hidden Ocean Could Be Home to Aliens, Breakthrough in Research Recent studies showed that one of Uranus’s moons, Miranda, might hold signs of ...

Scientists gathered much of the knowledge about Uranus after NASA's robotic spacecraft conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

New analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a solar storm may have skewed our understanding of Uranus and its moons.

NASA scientists discovered that during the Voyager 2 ... Voyager 2's observations initially suggested that Uranus's two ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

This research builds on earlier NASA investigations into Uranus’s other moons—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—which ...