Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

Uranus' radiation belts exhibit a surprising characteristic: their intensity far exceeds scientific predictions. This ...

The solar system's oddball planet has some pretty odd moons, too. The first infrared spectra of Uranus's small inner moons, ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, could be hiding in a buried liquid water ocean. Previous theories have suggested this happens as a ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...