We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.

It is big enough to fit 63 Earths inside it. Among the solar system's eight planets, only Jupiter and Saturn are larger. Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the sun like a rolling ball.

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

‘Pluto got reclassified because it turns out there are a lot of small Pluto-like things that formed in a somewhat different way than the 8 major planets of our solar system.’ However, this ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy atmosphere of the largest planet in the Solar System on its ...