Scientists may have solved a lingering mystery surrounding the ice giant Uranus and its weak radiation belts. It's possible the belts' weakness is linked to the planet's curiously tilted and lopsided ...

Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, ...

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Uranus and Neptune may not be ice giants. New scientific models reveal a rocky composition that challenges what we know.

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Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed detailed images of glowing auroras in the atmosphere of Uranus, providing scientists with a rare opportunity to study the planet’s ...

Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists' wish lists. But which spacecraft-mounted instruments would be most useful for answering questions ...

Uranus’s strange magnetic field may be much less weird than astronomers first thought, which means its largest moons could be much more active, and even perhaps have global oceans. Our only direct ...

Uranus looks calm from a distance, but it is one of the strangest planets ever discovered. With a sideways rotation, broken ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have tectonic features or a patchwork of ridges and cliffs. Using the Hubble space ...