But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” said Matthew Tiscareno, a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute. He made the comment after a find that is a testament ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet's count of natural ... telescopes and the Voyager 2 spacecraft when it made its 1986 flyby of ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet. And yes, we admit, the jokes ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

Before Voyager 2’s groundbreaking views of Uranus in 1986, only five moons — its largest — had been spotted orbiting the planet, with the first two discovered in 1787 and the fifth in 1948. Voyager 2 ...

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

This is the image of Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft detected a surprisingly low level of internal ...

The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly. Voyager ...

Astronomers using the powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus, according to NASA. The discovery boosts the number of moons known to ...