Uranus in the Solar System

Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests

In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the solar system’s seventh planet. The discoveries from that singular visit still provide much of astronomers’ modern understanding of the strange,

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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong

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

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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study

The energized particles around the planet defied their understanding of how magnetic fields work to trap particle radiation, and Uranus earned a reputation as an outlier in our solar system. "If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have ...

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Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades. Now, scientists have shown why

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years

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

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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong

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

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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

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Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

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Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years ...

Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited

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.

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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

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

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