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

Learn about the unexpected discovery that has shaped new perspectives on Uranus' moons and their brightness.

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

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

This image of Uranus was taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe in January 1986. PHOTOGRAPH: NASA/JPL. But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant.

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 ...