NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...

In 1986, humanity got its first close look at Uranus's secrets thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. After a lengthy journey, this ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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

This key development will help scientists block starlight, making it possible to detect the faint light from planets outside our solar system. This milestone brings the Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

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

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.

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

"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully ... This new knowledge gives us a firmer basis for understanding what element abundances in giant planet atmospheres can ...