Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.
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Here's What to Look for in the Night Sky (Besides Stars)
Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...
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Saturn's Biggest Moon Might Have A Layer Of Methane Ice Six Miles Thick, Which Could Help Detect Signs Of Life
The icy shell of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface ...
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Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...