New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant ...

A small team of astrophysicists at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with colleagues from the University of ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...

For several years, astronomers have been studying the impact of the solar wind striking the magnetopause, which defines the outer edges of the magnetosphere. Prior research has shown that as the ...

"If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetosphere at Uranus," said Jamie Jasinski of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern ...

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet discovered ...

A small team of astrophysicists at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with colleagues from the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Colorado, Boulder, has found ...

On Earth, compasses always point north—but when you’re drifting outside our planet’s magnetosphere, things get more complicated.