Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years.

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...

New analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a solar storm may have skewed our understanding of Uranus and its moons.

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...