What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Asteroid "Tedstryk" honors Roane State associate professor, Ted Stryk, for his image work on NASA's Pluto mission, unlocking celestial secrets.

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Learn about the unexpected discovery that has shaped new perspectives on Uranus' moons and their brightness.

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

An analysis of 11 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows that Uranus' day lasts 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds. That's 28 seconds longer than NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

A human-made object has visited the seventh planet from the Sun just once. On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft conducted a flyby, gathering some of the most comprehensive data ...

image: The planet Uranus, photographed by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986. The planet and its moons are expected to be the target of NASA’s next major mission to the outer solar system.

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, ... Much of what we know about Uranus is taken from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which zipped past the ice giant in 1986.

An image of the planet Uranus taken by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. New research using data from the mission shows a solar wind event took place during the flyby, leading to a mystery ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study. Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its ...