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

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

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

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Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

In 1980, the U.S. space probe "Voyager One" came within 124,000 kilometres of Saturn, sailing beneath the planet's rings while transmitting data to ... considered to be one of the fathers of Canada's ...

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.