Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...