During its 1986 observation of the planet in the first and only flyby, the spacecraft measured a surprisingly strong electron ...

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.

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

Our understanding of Uranus could have been wrong for nearly four decades, new research suggests — and a weird space weather event is likely to blame. Much of what we know about Uranus is taken from ...

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

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third ...

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

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

It's a very good time to look at the sky, thanks to a new moon tonight that's keeping the sky dark. That will mean a stunning view of the Orionid meteor shower this weekend, but it will also offer ...