The outer region of the solar system may be the least explored, but scientists have managed to unravel several of its mysteries in recent weeks. On New Year’s Day, the NASA spacecraft New Horizons ...

The surface of the seventh planet from the sun is normally pretty calm — which is why amateur and professional astronomers alike were thrilled to see storms brewing on Uranus' face earlier this year.

(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a glowing new portrait of Uranus that showcases the ice giant’s typically hidden rings, moons, weather and atmosphere — features that were nowhere to ...

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think they have found the answer to a puzzle that has lingered for nearly four ...

In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe’s portraits of the planet were “notoriously bland,” disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its atmosphere, and giving ...

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Astronomers have created the most detailed, high-resolution images of Uranus ever taken, showing off its complex weather patterns and several features that scientists don’t completely understand.

Yes, I know. Let’s get this out of the way immediately. But it’s true: Some huge storms have formed on Uranus, so big they’re easily visible to large telescopes on Earth. Uranus is weirder yet.

Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the ice giant’s strange magnetic environment. By ...

Well, the weather outside Uranus is frightful. That’s the conclusion reached by scientists parsing data from the Hubble Space Telescope, reported website The Conversation. Despite residing on the ...

Inscrutable ice giants Neptune and Uranus have only a thin rind of windy weather over their fluid contents, a team of planetary scientists say. The research published in the journal Nature relies on ...