But a new analysis of the Voyager 2 data showed that Uranus experienced a rare cosmic occurrence just before the flyby. Days before the flyby, an intense solar wind event was released from the sun ...

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

It shows that Voyager 2 flew past on a bad day. The new research shows that just as Voyager 2 flew past Uranus, the Sun was raging, creating a powerful solar wind that might have blown the ...

A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.

In April 2025, a rare stellar occultation provided NASA scientists a unique opportunity to study Uranus' atmosphere, offering ...

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by ... France’s Observatoire de Paris-PSL who led the research team, in a statement. “With this new longitude system, we can now compare auroral ...

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Uranus up-close. Using radio ...

However, new observations from space- and ground-based telescopes reveal that Uranus does in fact radiate more energy than sunlight provides, two research teams report in work submitted to arXiv ...

Refined knowledge about Uranus’s rotation period introduces new research prospects to scientists. Utilizing precise rotation period data will improve research on the planetary magnetic field ...