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

Uranus is often regarded as the weirdest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not ...

Uranus is often regarded as the weirdest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually be as strange as we thought. Researchers from University College ...

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

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

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our ...

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

The authors suggest that if Voyager 2 had visited Uranus just a week before, the spacecraft would have encountered a magnetosphere similar to those of the other giants of our solar system ...

Such a visit likely would have shown that the Uranus magnetosphere is similar to those of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the ...

Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies ...