Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

For instance, in 1977, astronomers found rings around Uranus using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Uranus became the second-ringed planet in our solar system. It has 13 rings and 28 moons that ...

Four decades years after their discovery, the 13 mysterious rings around Uranus surprised astronomers again this summer. In June, new images captured their warm glow for the first time.

Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling ... orbiting the outermost planets in our solar system—one around Uranus and two ...

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior ...

However, unlike Saturn, Uranus and its rings are 'tilted' almost completely sideways, like a spinning top that has fallen over. This means that as the planet orbits the Sun, each of its poles ...

Dec. 19, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings ...