The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

Decades-old data from NASA's Voyager 2 has reignited interest in Uranus, revealing new insights that challenge past ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

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

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

“If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetosphere at Uranus,” said lead study author Jamie Jasinski, a physicist at NASA’s Jet ...