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 ...

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.

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 ...

Unlike all the other planets, which spin roughly “upright” with their spin axes at close to right angles to their orbits around the sun, Uranus is tilted by almost a right angle. So in its ...

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 ...

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.

If we wanted to set up permanent bases on Uranus's satellites, Titania and Miranda are great targets — Titania presents the strongest gravity (almost 4 percent of Earth's), and Miranda has a ...

If you have some free time this weekend, why not tune into an astronomy broadcast showing astronomers investigating the distant ice giant planet Uranus?

A key committee of scientists has recommended that a flagship mission to Uranus should be NASA's highest-priority large planetary science mission for the next decade; here's what such a mission ...

Uranus never gets big or bright for us Earthlings, which is why this weekend's conjunction with Mars is a rare opportunity to find the seventh planet with your own eyes.

Incredibly high-resolution simulations could help scientists solve the mystery of why Uranus is on its side.