A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space — ...

Uranus, a largely unexplored giant planet in our solar system, has long been a subject of scientific intrigue. Yet, despite ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

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When solar wind disturbances hit a planet’s magnetic field, they can trigger powerful electromagnetic waves called chorus waves. These waves act like a cosmic accelerator. They repeatedly “kick” ...

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

Uranus, named after the Greek sky god, was discovered in 1781, becoming the first planet identified with a telescope. Despite this claim to fame, researchers haven’t probed this far-off world—seventh ...

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has ...