When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans to send another spacecraft to Uranus, this time ...

The inner and major moons all have prograde orbits, while orbits of the irregulars are mostly retrograde. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's ...

In that image, 11 of Uranus’s 13 known rings could be seen, but the final two were too faint to show up. Read more Moons around Uranus may suddenly develop atmospheres in the spring JWST has now ...

However, not in the view of Roberto Vieira Martins. He and his collaborators from Brazil’s National Observatory and from the Valongo Observatory, in Rio de Janeiro, have recently witnessed a rare ...

The planet Uranus, photographed by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986. The planet and its moons are expected to be the target of NASA’s next major mission to the outer solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

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.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and sterile. [SPL] The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have ...

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...