But a new analysis of the Voyager 2 data showed that Uranus experienced a rare cosmic occurrence just before the flyby. Days before the flyby, an intense solar wind event was released from the sun ...
Studying how much the Uranian moons sway in orbit may reveal whether or not they have oceans inside of them. NASA is in the ...
One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...
The proposed mission, known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP), would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ...
Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...
New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant ...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, passed through it when its magnetosphere was unusually squashed by the solar wind, according to a study. It means ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, they may have oceans, and the moons may even be capable of supporting life, ...
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also introduced ...