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

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

Astronomers have discovered that the "dark sides" of Uranus' largest moons aren't where they originally thought — and in some ...

Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be mostly in the same spot it was this year when Earth comes around again next year.

That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun.

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant ... NASA would launch a spacecraft by 2032 that would orbit the planet and send a probe into its ...

Uranus, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 on Jan. 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet for the orbit of Neptune.

Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be mostly in the same spot it was this year when Earth comes around again next year.