After surviving the extreme, long-haul journey, you'd next have to navigate all 13 of Uranus' dusty rings - a bit like a spy dodging lasers in those classic movies. Then, you'd become the first ever ...

NASA chiefs took advantage of an unusual cosmic event to get their first detailed glimpse inside the mysterious planet this century and were able to measure some key features of Uranas' atmosphere ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

The US space agency took advantage of a rare cosmic event to get a glimpse inside the distant ice giant and you will not ...

Uranus has 13 known rings, with 11 of them visible in the new ... "The ring system of a planet tells us a lot about its origins and formation," said Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney, a postdoctoral research ...

Uranus' rings may have been larger and brighter when they originally formed, but have since been diminished by the scouring effect of the moons. The fact that Uranus still has rings suggests that ...