Mysteries about Uranus that have baffled scientists for decades may have been the result of an unusually powerful solar storm ...

This storm likely depleted the water-related particles and plasma around Uranus, which Voyager did not detect, leading to the initial belief that Uranus's moons were inactive worlds, Mr Dunn added. He ...

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

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

Voyager 1, NASA's furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...

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

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

Now, new research analyzing the data collected during that flyby 38 years ago has found that the source of that particular ...

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

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...