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

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

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

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

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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

NASA's Juno spacecraft, on its 66th flyby of Jupiter, has captured breathtaking images of the planet's turbulent storms and ...

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

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

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 ...