NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Uranus, becoming the first,and so far, only probe to closely study ...

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

It's been almost 40 years since Voyager 2 flew past Uranus, but its readings from that whistlestop flyby have remained some ...

Voyager 2 is still the only spacecraft to visit the outer planets of Neptune and Uranus. The Voyager probes launched in 1977. Together, they visited Saturn and Jupiter and their moons.

Historic color photos of Uranus and Neptune are actually the wrong colors, and a recent study used new data and a lot of math to set the record straight. In Voyager 2’s full-color photos of the ...

Uranus appeared to be a pale cyan color, while Neptune was depicted as a striking deep blue. Voyager 2 captured images of each planet in separate colors, and the single-color images were combined ...

For years, Neptune was shown to be “too blue" but researchers with the University of Oxford used modeling to show Uranus and Neptune are closer in color.

As Voyager 2 departed Uranus for Neptune, the spacecraft turned around and snapped this picture of a crescent Uranus on January 25, 1986. The blue-green hue comes from reflected sunlight filtered ...

Thirty years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant. Before this, the eighth planet in our solar system was ...

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 ...

Uranus and Neptune haven’t had a spacecraft visitor since NASA’s Voyager 2 mission more than 30 years ago. The study authors said that if a dedicated spacecraft were to orbit Uranus, it would ...