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 ...

According to measurements taken by Voyager 2 when the NASA probe conducted a flyby in 1986, Uranus's magnetosphere is a hot ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

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

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 magnetic fi ...

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.

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 ...

Freezing cold, dark and with an atmosphere that smells like farts and rotten eggs? Uranus doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to call home. But let’s say you did want to move to Uranus. What kind ...