Smithsonian Magazine on MSN21h
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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 ...
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, ...
Discover Magazine on MSN7d
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 ...
What If on MSN10d
What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?
"This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN4d
New research points to an undiscovered Earth-like planet in our solar system
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
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 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, ...
CNN9d
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
Our solar system used ... to disprove Planet Nine as a whole,” Naess said in an email. Amid controversies and diverging opinions, all of the researchers agree on one thing. A new wide-angle ...
New Scientist on MSN3d
Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...