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

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

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

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

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

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

"A future mission to Uranus is crucial to understanding not only the planet and magnetosphere, but also its atmosphere, rings ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life. Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 ...

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...