New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons are gathering dust — literally.Uranus, the ...

Uranus was in the midst of a rare solar wind event that colored scientists’ conclusions about the ice giant. “Our ...

Like the ice giant itself, Uranus' moons orbit the sun on their sides and this is just one element that makes them some of the most unusual bodies in the solar system. When you purchase through ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of Uranus, detailing the ice giant's ring system, its brightest moons and its zestful atmosphere. The observation, made Feb. 6 ...

A mission to Uranus is now the top future-mission priority of NASA planetary scientists, and exploration of this mysterious ice giant may shed light on a kind of planet now known to be one of the ...

In a sequel to its image of the planet Neptune’s rings in September 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a new image of the ice giant Uranus. The new view of the seventh planet ...

As the third furthest planet from the sun (assuming you count the dwarf planet Pluto), Uranus is a ball of contradictions, hot and yet cold, placid-looking and yet churning beneath. Scientists are ...

A trip to Uranus or Neptune emerged as a top contender. "The "dearth of knowledge on the ice giants" was identified as a problem of highest priority for resolving in the coming decade," Mandt writes.

Through a telescope, you'll likely be able to see Uranus' blue-green hue, but not its 13 faint rings, which are oriented on an extreme tilt. The planet is one of the two ice giants in our system ...