The hypothesis, outlined in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ... likely created a debris ring along Earth’s equatorial ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

In 1986, Voyager 2 flew by the ice giant Uranus. It was humanity's first close-up view of the outer planet, and it remains ...

To see the planet's blue-green hue, which is caused by the absorption of sunlight from methane gas, you'll need a small ...

Decades-old data from NASA's Voyager 2 has reignited interest in Uranus, revealing new insights that challenge past ...

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

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...