We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

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

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

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

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something ... including its rings and moons, in just six hours. The results of that 1986 visit indicated that Uranus’s ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...