Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists ... Planetary scientists are ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image of Uranus while flying by the ice giant in 1986. New research using data from the ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

They'll look like a halo surrounding the planet rather than physical rings like you can usually see with Saturn. Opposition happens once a year for each planet in the solar system except Venus and ...