Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
Scientists maintained that the missing plasma also puzzled them because they knew that the five major Uranian moons in the ...
New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...
For decades, this led scientists to a possibly inaccurate view of Uranus and its moons, explained Dr William Dunn from ...
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
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 ...