The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...

On July 7, change-maker Uranus will make its debut in Gemini for the first time in almost a century. Discover what this means ...

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in ...

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’s irregular moons, small distant bodies with eccentric orbits, are constantly being hit by micrometeorites and ejecting some of that material into orbit around the planet.

Uranus News. See images of the bright blue ring discovered around Uranus. Read science articles on the planet Uranus and more.

We now have a good idea about the makeup of Uranus’ atmosphere 20 years of observations have given us more knowledge about the icy giant.

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus (shown here in a false-color infrared image), the probe detected a strange magnetic environment around the planet. That may have been a fluke of timing. NASA, ESA ...

An exploded view of an ice giant planet such as Uranus or Neptune, with its hidden water-rich layer (blue) that has separated from a deeper layer of hot, high-pressure carbon, nitrogen and ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s most mysterious planets.

Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites and orbits the planet around once every 1.4 Earth days, according to Nasa.