A new paper suggests that the only data we've captured of Uranus's magnetosphere may have been skewed by rare solar wind ...

This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

Though it will be visible all night long, Uranus will be highest in the sky at midnight. Theoretically, it's possible to see ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...