But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions - an intense solar wind event - ...

Previously it was believed Uranus' moons were desolate, desert-like worlds, but now it seems that the data from the Voyager 2 ...

However, a recent analysis reveals that Voyager's encounter occurred during an intense solar storm, potentially skewing our ...

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

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

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby revealed Uranus’s unusual magnetic structure. Study links the magnetosphere’s distortion to an intense ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...