We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
Book your visit at <a href=" of years in the future, our Sun will become a red giant and then die out. But when the Sun dies, ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...