In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Engineering and Medicine called on NASA to make another mission to Uranus a priority in the next decade, spending a year orbiting the planet and sending a probe into its atmosphere.

The James Webb Space Telescope has already helped reveal new information about Uranus, including highlighting its typically hidden rings, moons, weather and atmosphere. Fortunately, sending a ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their attention further afield, towards the ice giant Uranus, the ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium, has a diameter of about 31,500 miles (50,700 km). It is big enough to fit 63 ...