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 ...
Get ready for some unforeseen shake-ups! The sun will clash with Uranus retrograde on Nov. 16, igniting unexpected ...
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order ...
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...
A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.
Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that ...
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.