Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed ... such as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Magnetospheres are the protective bubbles around planets like Earth that have magnetic cores ...

“These were two major mysteries leftover from the Voyager 2 flyby, both of which can be reasonably ... Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune; it also discovered 16 moons ...

Neptune’s auroras appear across unexpected locations due to its tilted and offset magnetic field. Scientists also detected the presence of H... A new analysis of Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in ...

During the flyby, Voyager also visited two of ... NASA's Deep Space Network of radio antennae across the world. Neptune was Voyager 2's last stop before it traveled to the solar system's edge.

Related: Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune It was ... just before Voyager 2's flyby, the solar wind drove the typical plasma out of Uranus ...

Now, it seems that our understanding of the planet — garnered mostly from a flyby by a NASA spacecraft ... Nature Astronomy suggests that when Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, Uranus was in the ...

with Voyager 1 crossing the heliosphere boundary in 2012 and Voyager 2 in 2018 after its flyby of Neptune. The Voyager spacecraft are powered by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators that produce ...

On August 25, 1989 – exactly eight years after a similar flyby with Saturn – Voyager 2 made its closest approach of Neptune, giving us humans the first glimpse ever of the eighth, and now ...

Since the Voyager 2 flyby, ever-improving terrestrial telescopes, the Hubble spacecraft and the James Webb observatory have brought Neptune into clearer view, allowing scientists to advance their ...

But a new analysis of the Voyager 2 data showed that Uranus experienced a rare cosmic occurrence just before the flyby. Days before the flyby, an intense solar wind event was released from the sun ...