Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

Voyager 2 previously found a major difference between Uranus and the other three gas giants. The space probe, launched in 1977, found that Uranus had no excess heat beyond its reflection of sunlight.

Uranus: Size, distance from the Sun, orbit. Uranus, the third-largest planet in the solar system, has an average temperature of –350° F and does not have a solid surface.

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

A Size Comparison of Uranus and Neptune’s Moons Reveals Their Epic Names. Melissa T. Miller. Tue, November 15, 2022 at 2:49 PM UTC. 2 min read.

Scientists have predicted that there could be large planets the size of Jupiter or Uranus likely trapped at the edge of our solar system, much farther than the hypothetical planet X. Such a planet ...

The size of Uranus' rings is controlled by the planet's five major moons, which are able to eject significant amounts of dust out of the Uranian system, ...

The images of Uranus were taken by NASA's high-powered James Webb Space Telescope and captured the icy planet along with its multiple inner and outer rings, many moons and a seasonal polar cap.

Confirmed for the first time, Uranus's unique aurora could help astronomers determine if other planets could support life. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries ...

Strange Uranus-size alien planet could be trapped in the edge of Solar System ‘One in every 200-3000 stars’ could host a planet in outer edge of its solar system, researchers say ...

Uranus has 27 moons and, even though scientists named them over the course of 150 years, most get their monikers from characters in Shakespeare’s many plays.