Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...
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Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
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 ...
Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986
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.
Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
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Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission
Voyager 2 has also endured its share of travails. In 2023, communication with the probe was inadvertently interrupted after its antenna was accidentally pointed away from Earth. The Deep Space Network ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Mysteries of Uranus may be explained by extreme space weather – study
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.
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Space Forge, Voyager sign MoU for in-space manufacturing
Space Forge signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Voyager Space to support in-space research and manufacturing.