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

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

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

Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe ...

who is a Professor and Director of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University and lead author of the study. “The ...

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

Recently, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics made a surprising discovery within the LHB.

The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly ...

NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the ...

With $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation’s second Future of Semiconductor program (FuSe2), the University of ...

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.

Scientists have discovered that Uranus and its moons may not be the lifeless worlds previously thought after new research ...