Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
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 at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...