Study discovers icy planet was buffeted by a rare solar storm in 1986, during Voyager 2’s two-day flyby, which may have ...

A clue could lie in Uranus's icy composition. (thunder rumbles) GURNEY: If you sent a spacecraft to Uranus, you would go through the atmosphere and, uh, you would see, uh, all of this, uh ...

2022 — Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Researchers have now developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both ...

Discoveries made by Voyager 2 in 1986 led to the conclusion that Uranus possesses the most extreme ... the quantitative characterization of dust composition in various astrophysical settings.

The back of the room showcases Uranus, left, and Neptune ... spectra from stars to determine a star’s temperature, chemical composition, relative motion, rotation, extended atmosphere if one exists ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...