Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...
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 ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...