Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the solar ...
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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists. The energized particles around ...
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The sun's poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes
Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...
Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains
Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...
New solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
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 ...
Webb telescope sees world that could reek of burnt matches and rotten eggs
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...
NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
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Historic Venus Flyby Sets Parker Solar Probe on Course for Sun's Closest Approach
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has done an extraordinary job teaching us about our Sun while ... of the second planet from the Sun ...
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Sidus Space to build six data storage spacecraft to orbit the Moon for Lonestar Data
“This award by Lonestar demonstrates Sidus’ ability to scale our LizzieSat platform ... for Lonestar's own use. NASA’s ...
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Pennsylvania State scientists propose Moon's surprising binary origins
Like our Moon, Triton orbits at a significantly inclined angle, tilting 67 degrees from the planet's equator. Research ...