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Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
Live Science10h
Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests
Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Interesting Engineering12h
NASA’s Roman Telescope gets new tech to hunt for alien worlds around distant suns
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
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 ...
tbsnews21h
Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus, potential life on ocean moons
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
Washington Square News1d
Review: ‘Heartwood’ connects the deterioration of our bodies and the earth
If an 80-degree November day in New York City is not indicative of the global climate crisis, I don’t know what is. With ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
KSEN6d
MSU Researcher: Can Tree Rings Quantify the Strength of Historic Cosmic Storms?
Montanans have been dazzled in recent months by colorful displays of the aurora, or northern lights, which occur when plasma ...
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...