We wanted to study giant impacts on Uranus to see exactly how such a collision could have affected the planet's evolution. Unfortunately, we can't (yet) build two planets in a lab and smash them ...

We wanted to study giant impacts on Uranus to see exactly how such a collision could have affected the planet’s evolution. Unfortunately, we can’t (yet) build two planets in a lab and smash ...

But just because we can’t live on worlds like Uranus doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be be trying to better understand this big, goofy, lopsided ice giant. As John Mayer almost said, Uranus is a ...

Why is Uranus Blue? Unlike Earth, Uranus isn't blue because of water, but rather methane. Yes, the same chemical you hear about in the context of cow flatulence, sewage, and natural gas.

If you think Earth’s seasons are extreme, Uranus takes it to another level! Because it spins on its side, each pole experiences 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.

“The aurora of Uranus has been a long-standing mystery since the first detection of near-infrared emissions back in 1993, but in the last four years we have begun to take the first steps in ...

A rare celestial alignment in the 2030s will make it possible to send a Uranus Orbiter on an 11-year journey to study the five largest of its 27 moons—all of which may be ocean worlds.

Astronomers at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected X-rays from the planet Uranus for the first time. Researchers used observations of the ice giant taken in 2002 and 2017 to detect… ...

Uranus is a mostly unexplored world; NASA's only visit to the seventh planet was Voyager 2's brief fly-by on Jan. 24, 1986, during which scientists discovered some of the planet's rings and moons ...