Voyager 2 Just Made Its Biggest Discovery Yet — What Scientists Found Is Incredible

Voyager 2 Just Made Its Biggest Discovery Yet — What Scientists Found Is Incredible Voyager 2 has been revealing secrets about the outer Solar System for nearly five decades — and scientists are still finding discoveries hidden inside its old data. One of the most remarkable examples came from a reanalysis of Voyager 2’s 1986 Uranus flyby. Scientists discovered evidence that the spacecraft had flown through a giant plasmoid — a huge magnetic bubble filled with charged particles that may have been carrying material from Uranus’s atmosphere into space. Voyager 2 also recently received renewed scientific attention as NASA released additional archived radio-astronomy data from its historic Uranus encounter. In this video, we explore Voyager 2’s most fascinating discoveries, what the mysterious plasmoid tells scientists about Uranus, and why data collected decades ago can still change our understanding of the Solar System. The spacecraft may be almost half a century old — but its scientific legacy is still growing.