Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...

Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...

However, this takes a lot of observations because, like Earth, the Uranian magnetic poles tend to drift. The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, ...