For decades, Uranus has held the title of the coldest planet in the solar system, with atmospheric temperatures plunging to ...

A new study by experts from Nasa and the University of Oxford suggests that Uranus gives out more heat than it receives from ...

A deep, long probe helped experts discover this.

A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from ...

Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine years to reach Uranus. It gathered most of its data on the mysterious planet, including its rings and moons, in just six hours.

Like its neighbor Neptune, Uranus is known as an ice giant, meaning 80% or more of the planet's mass is a hot dense fluid composed of icy materials including water, methane, and ammonia, according ...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and was the first to be discovered with a telescope. We explore this ice giant in more detail here.

Like the ice giant itself, Uranus' moons orbit the sun on their sides and this is just one element that makes them some of the most unusual bodies in the solar system.

A stunning image of Uranus. The planet has been chosen is a target for future in depth investigation, the first time it will have been studied up close since the Voyager flyby in 1986. JPL/NASA ...

The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in ...

Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Uranus rotates on its side, although why it does so remains a mystery. This planet, like the Sun, is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...