Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
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.
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
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, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...
They'll look like a halo surrounding the planet rather than physical rings like you can usually see with Saturn. Opposition happens once a year for each planet in the solar system except Venus and ...