A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Discovered in 1781, Uranus was named after the primordial Greek god of the cosmos, presumably by astronomers with more maturity than most of us. It’s the only planet to be named after a Greek ...

Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out than the Earth - Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope, in 1781.

Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh ...

The four known satellites of Uranus, which revolve in a ,plane which is nearly perpendicular to that of the ecliptic, appear at their vast distance from us to have diameters varying between 500 ...

The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ice giant Uranus, may have a liquid water ocean underneath its surface, according to a paper in The Planetary Science Journal. This places Miranda ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. If you’ve never seen the seventh planet, Uranus, here comes one of the easiest chances you’ll get. In the early hours of ...

Uranus, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, has at least 13 rings and numerous moons The US space agency Nasa should prioritise a mission to Uranus, an influential panel of scientists ...

Uranus’ moon Miranda, once thought to be a lifeless, frozen ball of ice, could actually be hiding vast oceans of liquid water ...