In 1986 and 1989, Voyager 2 made the final two stops on its grand tour of the outer solar system when it swept by Uranus and Neptune, respectively. Now, nearly 40 years later, the archive of data ...

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

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus ... Related: Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune It was Uranus's radiation belts — alongside its lopsided ...

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

The research builds on existing information about Uranus, like the fact that the planet is composed mainly of water and ...

Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles ... giants of our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. “The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4 percent of the ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

(Courtesy: Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley) When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus and Neptune in 1986 and 1989, it detected something strange: neither of these “ice giant” planets has a ...

A spatial enigma hides in the depths of Uranus and Neptune ... Since their discovery by Voyager 2, these storms have been studied. Their rare but impressive appearances raise questions about ...

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ...