Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

That's why scientists were eager to study Uranus's magnetosphere, and what they saw in the Voyager 2 data in 1986 flummoxed ...

The findings of the flyby indicated the planet’s radiation belts were incredibly intense, second only to Jupiter’s. Yet the ...

Such a visit likely would have shown that the Uranus magnetosphere is similar to those of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the ...

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

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order ...

The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...

NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus Oct. 11 ... NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball Oct. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have ...