SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites in back end of coast-to-coast double launch
SpaceX is scheduled to launch another round of Starlink satellites into lower Earth orbit, with a launch set to leave the ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...
SpaceX to launch Nov. 18, lift-off scheduled for afternoon
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday that President elect-Trump “and his transition team are already breaking” a law ...
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Voyager 2's Historic Flyby of Uranus Exposes Rare Magnetic Distortion
Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby revealed Uranus’s unusual magnetic structure. Study links the magnetosphere’s distortion to an intense ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Trump 2.0 Could Put A Rocket Under SpaceX And The U.S. Space Industry
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk jumps as he joins Donald Trump on stage during a presidential campaign rally in Butler, ...
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New Clues from Voyager 2 Reveal Uranus May Be More Mysterious Than Originally Thought
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
Uranus and its moons may have ideal conditions for life—but Voyager 2 missed it due to one bad day
New analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a solar storm may have skewed our understanding of Uranus and its moons.
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A space mission to Triton and Neptune would unlock their mysteries
A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...
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A rare event during 1986 Uranus flyby may have skewed the way scientists understand the planet, study finds
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the ...