Uranus looks calm and distant, but its behavior defies nearly every planetary norm. Knocked onto its side by a massive ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

The size of Uranus' rings is controlled by the planet's five major moons, which are able to eject significant amounts of dust out of the Uranian system, according to new simulations designed to figure ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the rings of Uranus. The stunning high-resolution image shows all of the distant planet’s inner and outer rings, as well ...

"Every component of that system has features that violate some of our ideas about how planets work." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Voyager 2's - and humanity's - "clearest" photograph of Uranus. We’re all doing our best to try and get through this nasty pandemic, but time are decidedly grim. A good distraction, for me at least, ...

Of all our planets, Uranus has had a tough time in the reputation stakes over the years. Its name alone is the butt of jokes, and NASA's announcement last week that it wanted to target Uranus with a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. You probably haven’t. About 1.8 billion miles/2.9 billion ...

Let’s stop pretending, shall we? Because really, we’re not fooling anyone. Uranus is funny. It was funny when you were twelve, and it’s funny now. It was certainly funny when I was a boy and went to a ...