It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the first and, so far, only flyby of the planet Uranus. The resulting trove of data, however, was a bonus that almost didn't happen.… At the time of Voyager ...

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 ...

The image on the cover of the March 3, 1986 issue shows a thin crescent of Uranus, visible as Voyager 2 passed behind the planet at a distance of 600,000 mi. on January 25, 1986. The pale blue-green ...