Many of us will know Uranus as the seventh planet from the sun or as the butt of a cosmic joke. This incredibly cold, ice giant of a planet is not only around four times the size of Earth but also ...

Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet's ...

The planetary decadal survey, authored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2022, recommended the first dedicated Uranus Orbiter and Probe as the next large NASA mission ...

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

First spotted in 1781 by the German-British astronomer Frederick William Herschel, Uranus is the seventh planet from our sun and orbits it at a distance of 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km), nearly ...

Moreover, the new moon is smaller and much fainter than the smallest of the previously known inner moons, making it likely that even more complexity remains to be discovered.” All of the moons around ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus.

A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of Uranus using JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) in order to find the small ...

NASA scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of a 29th moon orbiting Uranus while using infrared detection in the James Webb Telescope in February. File Photo courtesy of NASA Aug. 19 (UPI) ...

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

While it does have somewhat of an awkward name, Uranus has actually been called the boring planet, and at first glance, it does look rather calm and yes, even boring, but underneath its placid blue ...