From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think ...

But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant. According to the research, which assessed Hubble images take between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus ...

Seen together, these smaller vortices evoke Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 masterpiece, “The Starry Night,” with intertwining white whirls against a blue background.

When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on January 24, 1986, the spacecraft detected no significant excess heat from the planet, making it seemingly unique among the sun’s giant worlds.

Neptune and Uranus, though part of the alignment, will require telescopes or high-powered binoculars for a clear view, it added. The last seven-planet alignment was on June 24-July 5, 2022. The next ...

But the planet reached an equinox in 2007, revealing areas around the north pole that had previously been shrouded. With the northern hemisphere entering spring and edging closer toward northern ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

More remain. One of them is linked to Uranus, which is currently at its brightest and closest to us for the year. With an average distance of 1.8 billion miles from the sun, the planet takes 84 ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data ...

Voyager 2 came within about 50,000 miles of Uranus' cloud tops, providing the first-ever close-up views of the planet, its rings and its moons. A NASA image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way ...