But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

Voyager 1, NASA's furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Launched in 1977 and now more than 15 billion miles from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 recently encountered an operational issue ...

Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that ...

Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine years to reach Uranus. It gathered most of its data on the mysterious planet, including its rings and moons, in just six hours. The results ...