Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe ...
who is a Professor and Director of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University and lead author of the study. “The ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
With $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation’s second Future of Semiconductor program (FuSe2), the University of ...
The existence and origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been a hot topic in astronomy research in recent years ... which has ...
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has shed light on the baffling observations made during the 1986 encounter, ...
At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...
A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life. Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 ...
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.