One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers: Holes ...

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

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

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

New Hubble observations reveal unexpected darkening on Uranus’ moons, challenging long-held assumptions about its ...

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

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading sides of the outer moons. This surprised the team and indicates that Uranus’ ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

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 ...

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 ...