Though it will be visible all night long, Uranus will be highest in the sky at midnight. Theoretically, it's possible to see ...

NASA released some high-quality images of Uranus, and they showcase the planet's many unique features. In these images, you can see rings, moons, storms, polar caps, and much more. Viewing the ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...

Often appearing in images to have starkly different hues, the true colors of Neptune and Uranus may be more similar than previously thought, new research has found. The first detailed glimpses of ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

An infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck Telescope adaptive ... [+] optics. The component colors of blue, green, and red were obtained from images made at ...

coming within 50,600 miles of Uranus' cloudtops. While encountering the planet on Jan. 24, 1986, the probe returned detailed photos and other data on the world, its moons, magnetic field and dark ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...