The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...
But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited the third largest planet in the solar system at a time of unusual ...