Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

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 ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while confounding, at least shed some light on a crucial characteristic that seemed to ...

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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 ...

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 weird plasma burst from the sun. When you purchase through links on our ...

Now, researchers say that the data could have been affected by a solar wind event Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent In 1986, Voyager 2 took this image of Uranus during its flyby. NASA / JPL ...

Almost everything known about Uranus’s magnetic field comes from a sole planetary fly-by by NASA’s Voyager 2 craft in 1986. The probe found that the planet’s magnetosphere was tilted and ...