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Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, ...

When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity had gathered on the giant planet up to that point. But as scientists become better at analyzing ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event. Much of the understanding of the ...

Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding Uranus' extraordinarily strong radiation belt. A new analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a temporary space weather event may have ...

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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 — ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data. Reading time 4 minutes A recent ...

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 ...

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 ...