The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...

New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA's Voyager mission completed humankind's first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

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 ...

This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest ... And the plasma that was measured was very tenuous," Jasinski said. Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

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 ...

"Discovering liquid water oceans inside the moons of Uranus would transform our thinking about the range of possibilities for ...

The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly.

as the spacecraft left the planet for the orbit of Neptune.Credit...NASA/JPL Supported by By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan previously reported on how Uranus got its color.