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

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the solar ...

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

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

During November, Uranus will be in opposition, allowing folks to view the blue planet easier than they normally would.

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...