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Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years later, scientists found the cause.

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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while confounding, at least shed some light on a crucial characteristic that seemed to set the planet apart from other giants like Jupiter.

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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 of Uranus caught the planet during a rare magnetic anomaly caused by unique space weather,

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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System

When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...

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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring

NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

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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 ...

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We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

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NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981

In August 2012, Voyager 1 made history as it entered interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ...

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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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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away

The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a technical issue caused a days-long communications blackout with the historic mission ...

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A mission to Triton and Neptune could unlock their mysteries

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

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Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission

"We're definitely going to make the 50th anniversary," says Professor Garry Hunt, one of the scientists responsible for ...

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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When the Voyager 2 ...

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