It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

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

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...

of the second planet from the Sun. “We’re reaching the crescendo of Parker’s incredible voyage through the inner solar system ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...

New research funded by NASA into the potential formation of solar vortices may finally solve the mystery at the sun's poles.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

The Hayabusa2 mission brought dust from the asteroid Ryugu back to Earth in 2020. These few grams of samples, shared among ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...