"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years. Story by Rachel Pannett • 4mo. Uranus, the ...

The crescent Moon lies in Taurus near the planet Uranus. You can easily spot the distant ice giant with binoculars or a small ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of Uranus, detailing the ice giant's ring system, its brightest moons and its zestful atmosphere.. The observation, made Feb. 6, comes on ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

This dearth of knowledge on the ice giants has led the planetary science community to select a mission to Uranus as the highest priority for NASA's next large-scale "flagship" mission in the ...

NASA wants to explore Uranus. Here's why that won't happen until the 2040s An unmanned mission to the mysterious ice giant is at least 20 years away.

On March 13, 1781, astronomer William Herschel changed our understanding of the solar system forever. He discovered Uranus, a planet unlike any other, with a tilted axis, bizarre weather patterns ...

Uranus: Why the radiation belt of the ice giant is so unusual Uranus is different from the other planets in the solar system in many respects. So far, it has only been visited once by a probe.

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years. A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...