For 47 years, as the emissary of humankind to the cosmos; it has trekked billions of kilometres and revealed the private ...

Related: Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune It was ... when the first readings from Voyager 2 appeared. The planet's magnetosphere was packed ...

(Courtesy: Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley) When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus and Neptune in 1986 and 1989, it detected something strange: neither of these “ice giant” planets has a ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

Uranus and Neptune's magnetic fields are a mess, discovered to be disorganized during NASA’s Voyager 2 flybys in the late 1980s. That chaotic structure pointed to something unusual inside the planets.

Each outer planet also has seasons lasting many ... planning for NASA's proposed Uranus Orbiter and Probe. When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, astronomers were mystified by a great dark ...

(CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the ... such as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Magnetospheres are the protective bubbles around planets like Earth that have magnetic cores and ...

Related: Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune It was Uranus's radiation belts — alongside its lopsided magnetic field — that baffled scientists when the ...