Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Business Today2d
‘Hidden Oceans’: NASA’s Voyager 2 discovers potential for life on Uranus’ moons
Most of the current understanding of Uranus comes from NASA’s Voyager 2 mission, which passed the planet nearly 40 ...
Phys.org on MSN9d
Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
The Washington Post2d
Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine ... The Earth’s strong magnetosphere, described by NASA scientists as a vast, comet-shaped bubble, is critical to our planet’s ...
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...
Nature2d
Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...