(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 ...

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 ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

PASADENA, Calif. — For 38 years, the secrets of Uranus have remained just out of humanity’s reach. Now, however, a deep dive into data from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft may change what we thought we ...

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

(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 ...

Scientists have found that a “rare intense wind event” during NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet. And yes, we admit, the jokes ...

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise measurements yet of the stinky planet's rotation rate, a full day on Uranus lasts ...

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 ...