In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the solar ...

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

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

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

New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

Scientists gathered much of the knowledge about Uranus after NASA's robotic spacecraft conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

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

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

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...