Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing ...

After surviving the extreme, long-haul journey, you'd next have to navigate all 13 of Uranus' dusty rings - a bit like a spy ...

when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," have been animated to show seasonal changes, according to the University of Oxford. Credit: University of Oxford / Patrick Irwin ...

An international team used 20 years of data and photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to study Uranus' atmosphere and ...

Researchers found the south polar region darkened in winter shadow, while the north polar region brightened as summer came.

However, during the equinoxes–when the sun is over the planet’s equator–it appears to have a more blue tinge. Animation of seasonal changes in color on Uranus during two Uranus years ...

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A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly.

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our understanding of the planet — garnered mostly from a flyby by a NASA spacecra ...

When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on January 24, 1986, the spacecraft detected no significant excess heat from the planet, making it seemingly unique among the sun’s giant worlds. However ...