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

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...

A new paper suggests that the only data we've captured of Uranus's magnetosphere may have been skewed by rare solar wind ...

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

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

When directed at Earth, the stream of solar wind flowing from a coronal hole can impact Earth's magnetosphere, triggering ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

The researchers took a fresh look at eight months of data from around the time of Voyager 2's visit and found that it ...

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