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A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery
Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.
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Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades. Now, scientists have shown why
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...
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The Sky This Week from November 15 to 22: 2024’s last Super Moon occults the Pleiades
The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
Researchers spot rare 'triple-ring' galaxy that defies explanation
A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...
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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...
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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...
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, ...
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
On the one hand, the electron radiation belts around Uranus were more powerfully charged ... which feed the plasma rings that ...
NASA Takes A Deep Dive Into Uranus And Solves Gassy Giant's Hidden Secrets
New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...