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

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...
CNN

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 ...
Newsweek

Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests

In 1986, Voyager 2 took this image of Uranus during its flyby. NASA / JPL-Caltech In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the ...
The New York Times

Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event. Much of the understanding of the ...