Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the ice giant’s strange magnetic environment. By ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the first and, so far, only flyby of the planet Uranus. The resulting trove of data, however, was a bonus that almost didn't happen.… At the time of Voyager ...

Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also introduced ...

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers and renewed interest in the icy planet and its moons.

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

It's been a while since Uranus was probed up close, but old data is proving to be quite valuable in solving a few decades old oddities. The last spacecraft that flew by Uranus was NASA’s Voyager 2 in ...

The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in the solar system, didn’t have an internal heat source. Reading time 2 minutes ...

All four of the sun’s giant planets emit more energy than they receive from the sun Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings ...

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