As the crescent Moon rises early this morning, it lies to the right of Uranus in the eastern sky. Although Uranus is faint - ...

A new study revealed Uranus’s structure as a planet changed and brightened significantly over the past 20 years.. The study, performed by researchers from the University of Arizona and the ...

On Saturday, May 17th, Uranus, our side-spinning planet of rebellion, liberation, and chaos with a capital C aligns with the Sun in the pleasure pastures of Taurus. Read on to learn more about how ...

Uranus is an ice giant located about 2 billion miles away from Earth. It is made up of hydrogen and helium atmospheres that are rich in water, ammonia, and methane.

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds.. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

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As Uranus is so far away, much of what we know about it stems from information gathered by Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. In January 1986, one half of the twin spacecraft zoomed past Uranus and ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the planet, recording mysteries of its magnetic field. Turns out, Uranus may have just ...

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s ...

Why it matters: For decades, Miranda – the small, icy moon of Uranus – was thought to be nothing more than a frozen hunk of rock and ice. However, new research from Johns Hopkins University is ...