Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...
To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...
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A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...
Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...
Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...
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