Uranus was in the midst of a rare solar wind event that colored scientists’ conclusions about the ice giant. “Our ...

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

This wider view of the Uranian system with Webb’s NIRCam instrument features the planet Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons (most of which are too small and faint to be seen in this short ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

The explanation: the ice giants are layered and unmixed, which prevents large scale convection to ... NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's ...

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 ...

Voyager 2 was the only spacecraft ever to visit the chilly, blue-green "ice giant." The probe tried to see which chemicals were in Uranus' clouds during its 1986 flyby, but it couldn't tell ...