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

The researchers took a fresh look at eight months of data from around the time of Voyager 2's visit and found that it ...

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

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

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

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...

But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly different from astronomers’ expectations, and scientists deemed the planet an outlier among the other large planets in ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

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.