The suppressed magnetosphere was a surprise because the electron radiation belts were intense – second only to Jupiter in the ...

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

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

ABB has upgraded a variable speed drive to extend the life of NASA’s National Transonic Facility (NTF) wind tunnel by at ...

NASA has completed the twin satellites it will launch next year to study the solar wind and its impact on Earth. The Tandem ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

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

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

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

To make this discovery, the team combined new measurements of solar neutrinos and data about the solar wind composition from NASA's Genesis mission, together with the abundance of water found in ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...