Those observations helped fine-tune the timing of the occultation and update Uranus’ position by about 125 miles (202 kilometers), which might not sound like much—unless you’re trying to aim ...

All those advantages make an aerocapture system sound like a good addition to any mission to Uranus, so what's the catch? Developing such a system would typically take years and cost millions of ...

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

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 ...

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ...

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our understanding of the planet — garnered mostly from a flyby by a NASA ...