A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.
The same can't be said of "space weather" from solar events, which can seriously affect satellites and even passenger planes.
A "severe" solar storm hit Earth on Sunday according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, causing parts of the ...
"During a solar storm, explosions on the solar surface, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), emit high-speed charged ...
The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The latest storm was preceded by the most powerful solar flare of the Sun’s current cycle, Cycle 25, when a region of sunspots delivered an X.90 flare. Solar flares, large eruptions of ...
In May, NOAA issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning. The storm that slammed Earth was the strongest in more than two decades, producing light displays across the Northern Hemisphere. That same ...
which causes phenomena such as May's solar storm, the largest observed by NASA in decades. Scientists have observed the sun's solar cycles since 1755, and according to new observations ...
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
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