The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...
Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...
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.
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...
Experts from University College London say that the mysteries surrounding Uranus may have been the result of a powerful solar ...
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.