Moreover, the magnetic field's intensity in the southern hemisphere was ten times weaker than in the north. This kind of ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

But Voyager’s flyby set up Uranus to be an outlier of the solar system when the spacecraft showed the planet had a magnetic ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby revealed Uranus’s unusual magnetic structure. Study links the magnetosphere’s distortion to an intense ...

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

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

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

Uranus is not what astronomers have thought it to be for the last several years. Our initial perception of the planet is ...

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

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