Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. ... Jupiter has a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study.

Or so they thought. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. A fresh look at the data collected during the Voyager 2 flyby revealed that the probe's visit to ...

Voyager 2 came within about 50,000 miles of Uranus' cloud tops, providing the first-ever close-up views of the planet, its rings and its moons. A NASA image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system. That ...

In 1986, Voyager 2 took this image of Uranus during its flyby. NASA / JPL-Caltech. In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into ...

Voyager 2’s data showed that Uranus’ magnetosphere was home to unexpectedly powerful electron radiation belts. Their intensity was similar to the massive bands of radiation found around Jupiter.

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. ... Jupiter has a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, ...

An image of the planet Uranus taken by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. New research using data from the mission shows a solar wind event took place during the flyby, leading to a mystery ...