Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...

The thermosphere-corona of Uranus is a unique layer that stretches up to 50,000km above the planet's surface and features ...

Decades-old data from NASA's Voyager 2 has reignited interest in Uranus, revealing new insights that challenge past ...

In 1986, Voyager 2 flew by the ice giant Uranus. It was humanity's first close-up view of the outer planet, and it remains ...

With the final supermoon of the year and the peak of one of the most famous meteor shower displays, this weekend will be ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...

Among the solar system's eight planets, only Jupiter and Saturn are larger. Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the ...

Scientists gathered much of the knowledge about Uranus after NASA's robotic spacecraft conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

To see the planet's blue-green hue, which is caused by the absorption of sunlight from methane gas, you'll need a small ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

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