A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.

This process, however, is absent from Uranus and Neptune. So, scientists wondered: Why would that be? For the last two decades, researchers had speculated that this was because layers of material ...

“The materials in my computer simulations had formed ... it is “primarily about the interiors and the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune, not about their atmospheres,” Militzer told ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a ...

This means Uranus’s material may have been blown away, and had a temporary distorted magnetic field. The new findings suggest that the planet and its moons could be geologically active after all ...

A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete ...

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Lamy, L. Sromovsky Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space ...