Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting the ice giant Uranus. The ...

Its bland exterior belies a dynamic world full of surprises Shi En Kim - Reporter Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the ...

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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 ...

What else is hiding in the brightness of the outer planets? That was made more pressing by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera catching a dim, six-mile-wide moon around Uranus a ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...