By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Uranus has held a unique, almost enigmatic place in our understanding of the solar system. Since Voyager 2’s flyby ...

"With this research, we think we finally understand the mix of chemical elements that made the solar system," said SwRI's Dr. Christopher Glein, an expert in planetary geochemistry. "It has more ...

(CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way ...

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.