Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

The Shenzhou 18 astronauts have safely returned home after a successful six-month mission aboard the Tiangong space station.

According to NASA, which recently shared this Hubble Space Telescope image, IC 3225 looks like it's been launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming ...

Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their attention further afield, towards the ice giant Uranus, the coldest planet in the solar system. And now, new research based on images ...

It moves slowly retrograde this month. The pre-dawn hours are a great time to view Uranus’ 4″-wide disk with a telescope. The easiest way to spot the magnitude 5.6 planet is with binoculars.

The pair’s macabre colors represent a combination of mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible and ultraviolet light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Look for potential ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet Uranus might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns Hopkins and the ...

Unless you’ve got an enormous telescope, the annual opposition of Uranus will be of little interest. However, if imaging the greenish-blue planet is on your to-do list, tonight’s the night because it ...