A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the ...

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Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over why Uranus seemed colder than expected. Now, an international research team led by the University of Houston has solved the mystery: Uranus emits more heat than it ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

In 1986, Voyager 2 flew by the ice giant Uranus. It was humanity’s first close-up view of the outer planet, and it remains the closest any spacecraft has ever come. On this trip, the spacecraft found ...

Uranus has 29 moons orbiting it. The first two moons Herschel spotted in 1787 were Oberon and Titania, and they are Uranus's largest moons. There is another Uranus moon that the James Webb Space ...

Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into what’s going on with Uranus. A new analysis, published in Nature Astronomy, ...