Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft.

Voyager 2 was only expected to last for five years, but it's still operating 42 years after launch. Yet Saturday, January 25, the probe did experience a bit of a hiccup 11 billion miles from Earth, ...

Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled billions of miles over nearly half a century. NASA intends the Voyager program to continue its historic exploration for at least another few years. But after nearly half ...

No more worries for one of the oldest spacecraft floating around in space, as the Voyager 2 successfully sent back a signal and started streaming data back to the home planet. The NASA Deep Space ...

On November 5, 2018, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft became the second human-made object to cross into interstellar space. Now, scientists have shared the initial science gained by Voyager 2's historic ...

For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic ...