Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...
NASA discovers something on Neptune and Uranus: "There are more than 5000" The ice giants of the solar system have long been ...
On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights about the solar system’s seventh planet. Information from the probe showed ...
NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.
On this date, Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona ...
On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...
The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.
On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented ... Also on this date in 2004, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity successfully ...