The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

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 ...

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

“To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,” said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Scientists have discovered potential oceans on two of Uranus's moons. Could this lead to a new space expedition? How much ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...

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

“A big piece of evidence against there being oceans on Uranus’s moons was the lack of detection of any water-related particles around the planet – Voyager 2 didn’t find water ions. “But now we can ...

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.