Of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System – including Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea – Pluto is easily the best-known ...

New research at UC Berkeley offers a fresh perspective on Uranus and Neptune's interiors, indicating layered structures of ...

Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...

Imagine a spacecraft dancing with distant moons, detecting tiny wobbles that could reveal vast hidden oceans beneath thick ...

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

Uranus is an oddball among the Solar System’s planets. While most planets’ axis of rotation is perpendicular to their orbital ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years ...

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...

Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...

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

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

Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be mostly in the same spot it was this year when Earth comes around again next year. The next ...