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

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Mike Yakovlev Over the last couple of years, planetary scientists ...

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

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

The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA to begin planning a new mission that will send a spacecraft to the ice giant. The mission is still in ...

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being ...

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

A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from a passing spacecraft.

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA ...