Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

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.

Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

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

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

Uranus, which orbits almost 20 times further from the sun than Earth does, has 28 known moons and two sets of rings. The ...

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

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

magnetic field and dark rings. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has, for decades, left scientists perplexed. Magnetospheres provide a protective bubble around planets with ...