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

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

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

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

It turns out that in the days just before Voyager 2's flyby, the planet had been affected by an unusual kind of space weather ...

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.

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

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

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Uranus is not what astronomers have thought it to be for the last several years. Our initial perception of the planet is ...