Their findings were published in Nature Astronomy and suggest a dirty ... our understanding of icy bodies in the solar system ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

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

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".

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

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

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

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

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