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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the solar ...
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.
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
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New Telescope Could Potentially Identify Planet X
Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...
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Planets of our Solar System
Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far ... closest part of the Oort Cloud might be 2, 000 times further from the Sun than Earth.
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
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A Second Earth-Like Planet May Exist In The Solar System, Say Scientists
Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking ... or a few such new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.
A distant planet seems to have a sulfur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
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Our Solar System
Comet DustIn a NASA clean room a scientist examines traps containing dust snared by the Stardust probe as it flew by the comet Wild 2 ... than the planets in our solar system.