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

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

New research shows Uranus’ fierce radiation belts were a short-lived blast from a solar storm, reshaping what Voyager 2 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Swiss Researchers Challenge Assumptions About Neptune And Uranus. The planets Uranus and Neptune could be hiding ...

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

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the planet 38 years ago. Opinion: Uranus was having a bad hair day. Hey, it was ...

Uranus is arguably the most mysterious planet in the solar system — we know very little about it. So far, we have only visited the planet once, with the Voyager 2 spacecraft back in 1986. The most ...