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 ...

The Voyager spacecraft continue to send us data from beyond this "wall", the only two probes ... "An observation by Voyager 2's magnetic field instrument confirms a surprising result from Voyager 1: ...

Our understanding of Uranus could have been wrong for nearly four decades, new research suggests — and a weird space weather event is likely to blame. Much of what we know about Uranus is taken from ...

NASA says its Voyager 2 probe flew into interstellar space in November and beyond the sun's reach. However, the robot has not left the solar system.

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers and renewed interest in the icy planet and its moons.

It's been a while since Uranus was probed up close, but old data is proving to be quite valuable in solving a few decades old oddities. The last spacecraft that flew by Uranus was NASA’s Voyager 2 in ...

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by ...

On this date, Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...