A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Such a visit likely would have shown that the Uranus magnetosphere is similar to those of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the solar system's other giant planets, the researchers said. A magnetosphere ...
“The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur ... the other large planets in our solar system, such as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Magnetospheres are the protective bubbles around ...
The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...