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 ...

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

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

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

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

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be ...

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.

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

Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the sun like a rolling ball. Uranus, which orbits almost 20 times further from the sun than Earth does, has 28 known moons and two sets of rings.