Many of us will know Uranus as the seventh planet from the sun or as the butt of a cosmic joke. This incredibly cold, ice ...

Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and unlike any other planet you ...

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NASA scientists have concluded that four of Uranus’ largest moons likely contain an ocean layer between their cores and icy crusts after re-analyzing data from the Voyager spacecraft and new computer ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun – The Sideways Planet, known for its chuckling name, this gas giant hanging out in the depths of the solar system has garnered intrigue from skywatchers and ...

Uranus is surrounded by a system of faint rings, but they are not easily spotted. Before today, only the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the planet in 1986 and the Keck Observatory have been ...

SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Uranus — our resident sideways, dirty-ringed, fart-smelling seventh planet — shines brighter than it has in nearly 40 years ...

A panel of planetary scientists has determined that Uranus should be a focus for future exploration by NASA. Should the recommendation go ahead, the agency could launch a $4.2 billion orbiter and ...

Uranus’s largest moons, Titania and Oberon, may be hiding buried oceans. Surface temperatures averaging around -200°C mean the water-rich worlds are covered in ice, but radioactive elements deep ...

The nights following Sept. 12 are a great time to observe the shifting play of light over the vast Montes Apenninus mountain ...