The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have carried the tidy label of “ice giants,” shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — including exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.