Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...
Voyager 1, NASA’s furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...
A new paper suggests that the only data we've captured of Uranus's magnetosphere may have been skewed by rare solar wind ...
This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...
Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...
Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.
Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...
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 ...
They approached this mystery like detectives working a cold case, revisiting old Voyager 2 images and using modern computer modeling techniques to reconstruct Miranda’s geologic past. Uranus’ icy moon ...
The surface of Uranus' moon Miranda is pictured in this photograph from the Voyager II satellite in 1986.
The moon, named Miranda, orbits the planet Uranus - just 1.7 billion miles away ... The trio used images captured by a Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 to technologically map out Miranda's geological ...