Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. If you’ve never seen the seventh planet, Uranus, here comes one of the easiest chances you’ll get. In the early hours of ...

By exploring Uranus’s moons, scientists aim to refine the tools and models necessary to search for life in similarly extreme ...

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...

The correct shades of the planets have now been ... Dec. 19, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its ...

The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly.

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

Chief among them was reaffirming that SpaceX will attempt to land on Mars ... reaching the seventh planet in the solar system. “We definitely want our rocket to reach Uranus.