And some of what we thought we knew about it turns out to be off the mark. An image of the planet Uranus taken by the Nasa ...
Voyager 1, NASA’s furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...
A new paper suggests that the only data we've captured of Uranus's magnetosphere may have been skewed by rare solar wind ...
This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...
Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...
Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.
Researchers at New York University have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals—a critical step in developing many medicines and electronic devices—in a matter of ...
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 ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...