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 ...
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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar SystemWhen it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Canada and Alaska will have the best chance of viewing the northern lights this evening, according to the NOAA. Other parts ...
Due to the fact that the radioisotopes used to power nuclear batteries are generally produced in nuclear reactors, ...
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.
NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...
One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...
Nasa scientists are celebrating as, after a period of silence, the craft recently called home again using a bit of kit that ...
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