They must’ve seen it coming. A space exploration enthusiast account on Twitter asked the internet to name an upcoming mission to the planet Uranus, in what almost feels like a setup for a punch line, ...

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on January 24, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and ...

Uranus's mysteriously asymmetrical and skewed magnetic field has long confounded astronomers—until now. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped past Uranus in 1986, it noticed that the huge gas giant's ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery, revealing a new moon orbiting Uranus, estimated to be just six miles in diameter. This tiny celestial body adds a new chapter to our ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with ...

Uranus is emitting X-rays, and scientists want to take a closer look. That's the mysterious conclusion of a new study, which analyzed two visuals of the planet and discovered X-ray activity for the ...

Uranus hosts yet another moon, which looks like a tiny, faint smudge in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers report in an Aug. 19 NASA release. The newfound object makes the ...