Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, could be hiding in a buried liquid water ocean. Previous theories have suggested this happens as a ...

Explore 25 mind-blowing facts about Uranus in this cosmic journey, from its unique name origins to extreme weather conditions ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise measurements yet of the stinky planet's rotation rate, a full day on Uranus lasts ...

'We were wrong' - Uranus and Neptune Might Not Be "Ice Giants" After All ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached opposition on ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached opposition on ...

Why it matters: Data science technologies available to today's researchers play a key role in shaping our understanding of the solar system. It not only uncovers new findings from the latest data, it ...

This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows how the ring system around the distant planet Uranus appears at ever more oblique (shallower) tilts as viewed from Earth – culminating in ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached opposition on ...