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

Uranus was in the midst of a rare solar wind event that colored scientists’ conclusions about the ice giant. “Our ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Voyager 2 was the only spacecraft ever to visit the chilly, blue-green "ice giant." The probe tried to see which chemicals were in Uranus' clouds during its 1986 flyby, but it couldn't tell ...

Nov. 25, 2024 — 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 ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...