Uranus emits 12% more heat than it gets from the Sun, contradicting Voyager 2 data. The discovery points to lingering formation heat and strengthens calls for a new NASA flagship mission to the ...

Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we ...

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, is sometimes visible with the unaided eye. Credit: Creators.com illustration How many planets are there in our solar system? Nine? Eight ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ...

Voyager 2 came within about 50,000 miles of Uranus' cloud tops, providing the first-ever close-up views of the planet, its rings and its moons. A NASA image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s ...

Feb. 28: Seven planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (The last time all seven planets aligned was on April 8 during the total solar eclipse).

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows the moons Titania, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel and Puck.

Two projects using the James Webb Space Telescope will look at the auroras of Uranus and Saturn to discover what processes make them tick.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, may initially look like a bland, blue-green ball. But there's a lot to love about the icy giant, from its 13 rings to its 27 known moons to the fact that ...