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 a passing spacecraft.

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years ...

These immiscible layers would explain why neither Uranus nor Neptune has a magnetic field like Earth's. That was one of the surprising discoveries about our solar system's ice giants made by the ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic ...

A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...

The atmospheres of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune may be separated into layers that don't mix, like oil and water.

The European Space Agency last week released four stunning high-res images that show the sun in all its fiery glory.

Uranus' atmosphere has cooled by 50% in decades, linked to solar wind changes. This reveals new insights into planetary ...

There are numerous proposals for spacecraft to visit both worlds, and the furthest along is a mission concept called the ...

The thermosphere-corona of Uranus is a unique layer that stretches up to 50,000km above the planet's surface and features ...

Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...