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 ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
Planets, moons, and the quest for life beyond earth As we explore the vast expanse of space, we embark on a journey that ...
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...
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