NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

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 ...

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

Uranus, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 on Jan. 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet for the orbit of Neptune.Credit...NASA/JPL Supported by By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan ...

Now, it seems that our understanding of the planet — garnered mostly from a flyby by a NASA spacecraft nearly ... Astronomy suggests that when Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, Uranus was in the ...

When the Voyager ... 2’s odd Uranus readings. “The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the time,” said lead study author Jamie Jasinski, space plasma physicist at ...

Launched by NASA in 1977, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus on January 24, 1986, capturing groundbreaking images and data that transformed our understanding of this distant world. Voyager 2 came within ...