Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

Scientists think they have got Uranus all wrong. Astronomers have been studying it long and hard, and suggest what they have ...

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.

Uranus’ moon Miranda, once thought to be a lifeless, frozen ball of ice, could actually be hiding vast oceans of liquid water ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. If you’ve never seen the seventh planet, Uranus, here comes one of the easiest chances you’ll get. In the early hours of ...

Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their attention further afield, towards the ice giant Uranus, the coldest planet in the solar system. And now, new research based on images ...

The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ice giant Uranus, may have a liquid water ocean underneath its surface, according to a paper in The Planetary Science Journal. This places Miranda ...