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

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

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

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...

In 1980, the U.S. space probe "Voyager One" came within 124,000 kilometres of Saturn, sailing beneath the planet's rings while transmitting data to ... with a crew that included Chris Hadfield as NASA ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.

An astronaut from NASA had to be attended by the doctors. He was taken to hospital for an undisclosed medical problem when he come back from a nearly ...