Voyager caught Uranus in a rare magnetic storm, and a 40-year mystery became a mission case for understanding volatile ice ...
Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...
Uranus is the planet that breaks rules, flips binaries, rejects norms, questions the old way of doing things, and insists on ...
Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...
On February 16, 1948, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus. [‘On This Day in ...
A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.
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 ...
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 ...