The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

The powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to spot a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus.

A NASA research team including the University of Idaho Physics Professor, Dr. Matthew Hedman, discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The team used imagery captured from NASA's James Webb Space ...

The first two moons Herschel spotted in 1787 were Oberon and Titania, and they are Uranus's largest moons. Two more soon followed with the sighting of Ariel and Umbriel, until Gerard Kuiper found ...

The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded.Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the ...

Uranus will transition from prograde to retrograde motion, appearing to move westward relative to background stars, beginning at 1 A.M. EDT. Uranus is observable in the early morning sky, ...

Uranus is currently observable in the constellation Taurus, approximately 4.5° south-southeast of the Pleiades star cluster. Binocular observation of Uranus is facilitated by its proximity to 14 Tauri ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an hour before they found the Neptune. That was in 1846.

Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and unlike any other planet you ...