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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Uranus, becoming the first,and so far, only probe to closely study the icy giant. But what did Voyager 2 see in its final moments as it ...
Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...
A new study by experts from Nasa and the University of Oxford suggests that Uranus gives out more heat than it receives from ...
The little we understood about the five moons of Uranus was primarily derived from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which zoomed by in August 1977. The data obtained back then suggested that these ...
Other worlds Illustrations depict how Uranus' magnetosphere, or protective bubble, was behaving before Voyager 2's arrival (left) and during the spacecraft's flyby (right). - NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by ...
This image provided by ESA/Hubble shows Uranus' aurorae taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on Oct. 10, 2022. Credit: AP By The Associated PressApril 7, 2025 10:56 am ...
Uranus' Moons Stun NASA With An Unexpected Dark Discovery By Hubble by Victor Awogbemila — Monday, June 16, 2025, 02:15 PM EDT Comments ...
Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from ...
On April 7, Uranus passed in front of a distant star located 400 light-years away, giving NASA scientists a rare cosmic alignment in which to investigate the distant ice giant.
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 made history as the first—and so far, the only—spacecraft to visit Uranus. This close encounter gave scientists a rare look at the planet’s magnetic field ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes ...