Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years. “The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the time," according to the lead ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study. advertisement Its findings may have misled us for 40 ...

The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, embarked on a historic journey to explore the outer planets of our solar system. Taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment, the probes ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system. That ...

Voyager 2’s data showed that Uranus’ magnetosphere was home to unexpectedly powerful electron radiation belts. Their intensity was similar to the massive bands of radiation found around Jupiter.

That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. A French-led team studied a decade’s worth of aurora observations at the ice giant to track its magnetic ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study. Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study. Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its ...