JPL to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce
In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...
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A Chance Encounter 40 Years Ago Tricked Us Into Believing Uranus Couldn't Host Life
Share on Flipboard (opens in a new window) Uranus as seen by Voyager 2 in 1986. Credit: NASA When NASA's Voyager 2 swung over Uranus in 1986, the information it gathered shocked scientists. Unlike any ...
Uranus’s wind problem could be good for humanity
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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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 ...
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Uranus could be a more interesting planet than first thought, says Nasa after researchers discover skewed data
Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...
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Uranus: 243 years later, new discoveries challenge what we thought we knew
Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...
Evidence from Snowball Earth found in ancient rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak – it’s a missing link
Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...
Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986
When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.