Voyager missed it, but now we know Uranus has a fiery secret Date: August 13, 2025 Source: University of Houston Summary: For decades, scientists puzzled over why Uranus seemed colder than ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986. But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of ...

The Voyager 2 probe encountered Uranus just a few days after solar wind had compressed its magnetosphere to about 20% of its usual volume.