NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

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

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

Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

"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 ...

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

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...