Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...
The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...
New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.
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.
Uranus has long held a reputation as the most peculiar planet in our solar system. This is partly due to bizarre observations ...
China’s Zhurong rover has found compelling evidence of a shoreline from a short-lived ancient ocean on Mars. This new ...
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...