But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space — ...

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 the ...

(CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...

It's been a while since Uranus was probed up close, but old data is proving to be quite valuable in solving a few decades old oddities. The last spacecraft that flew by Uranus was NASA’s Voyager 2 in ...

There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors Opinion The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every ...

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.

The glow of Uranus’ rings and the moon’s tiny size, measuring about 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, are likely what obscured it from the view of Voyager 2, the only mission that has performed ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

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 ...