A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

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

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.

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

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

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

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Uranus retrograde is when the planet appears to move backwards in relation to the Earth. Known as “The Great Awakener,” Uranus retrograde is meant to open your eyes to things in your life that need to ...