Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

“If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetosphere at Uranus,” ...

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by ...

This wider view of the Uranian system with Webb’s NIRCam instrument features the planet Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons (most of which are too small and faint to be seen in this short ...

The seventh planet from the sun was first discovered on 13 March 1781 by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer.

would be overwhelmed by the planet’s complex and extremely powerful magnetosphere — which is some 20,000 times the strength of Earth’s. Meanwhile, Saturn’s magnetic field is nearly perfectly aligned ...