NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched in 2021 and has captured incredible photos of Uranus and some of its 28 moons.

Now scientists may have finally figured out why. A comparison between the Gas Planets Uranus and Neptune on a starry background. Image source: Tristan3D / Adobe For decades, scientists have ...

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 ...

A team of three astronomers was using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory to observe the atmosphere of Uranus. They did this during a stellar occultation, which means that a background star was ...

A comparison between the Gas Planets Uranus and Neptune on a starry background. Image source: Tristan3D / Adobe This reasoning, they say, is plausible for several reasons and isn’t the only ...

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 ...