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".

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

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

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

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

‘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 ...

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

Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems ...