The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you ...

The ultraviolet aurorae of Uranus was first observed 1986, but the infrared aurora has not been observed until now, according to the team. By analyzing specific wavelengths of light emitted from ...

Uranus is slightly larger than Neptune, with a diameter of 31,518.4 miles (50,724 kilometers), but less mass overall, making it the second least dense planet after Saturn, according to NASA.

But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant. According to the research, which assessed Hubble images taken between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus ...

If human life existed on the planet Uranus, it’s likely the same phenomenon might happen. But now we know that a single day on Uranus is 28 seconds longer than astronomers first calculated in ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system.