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 ...

Horns high and defiance nigh, the last supermoon of the year rises this week. On Friday, November 15th, the full beaver moon ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

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

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

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

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

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that ...

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