Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

If someone were to fall into Uranus, they would see its ring system, the turquoise hue of its swirling atmospheric bands, and ...

"Discovering liquid water oceans inside the moons of Uranus would transform our thinking about the range of possibilities for ...

"It's been 30 days since Uranus first appeared in the sky. At first, it looked like our Moon had found itself a stellar ...

A Cold Moon hangs in the sky while Jupiter still shines bright and the Geminid meteor shower peaks in the sky this week.

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 ...

New research claims that Neptune and Uranus may hold hidden oceans of water and other materials below their extreme ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...

New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant ...

New research at UC Berkeley offers a fresh perspective on Uranus and Neptune's interiors, indicating layered structures of ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and its moons should be NASA's highest-priority new flagship mission for startup in the decade 2023-2032.

The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA to begin planning a new mission that will send a spacecraft to the ice giant. The mission is still ...