Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.
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 Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...
NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...
The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...
The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.
The presence of darkness reveals that the hero is on the way to a greater truth. A transformation always occurs, but only ...
Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...