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

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

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

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 ...

The unexplored secrets of Uranus are still far out of reach, and the latest observations of the icy planet's moons have added ...

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

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

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

Uranus also has 13 rings and 28 satellites. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe successfully completed what has been, to date, the only exploration of the planet, conducting a flyby as ...

The icy world was portrayed for the first time in 1986, during a Voyager 2 flyby. We have known about Uranus' characteristic cyan color since then, but the Hubble data can now provide a closer ...