The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly intense radiation belts and an apparently plasma-depleted magnetosphere.
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains a bit of an ...
Scientists believe conditions for life exist on Uranus's moons after a reanalysis of data collected by NASA's Voyager 2 probe in 1986. The spacecraft's flyby was impacted by an unusually strong ...
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...
Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has always been a bit of a mystery. Recently, scientists have been curious if it might have an ocean hidden beneath its icy surface. If this is true, it could ...
What's the right way to pronounce it? Uranus or Ur-A-nus? How do famous scientists pronounce the name of this planet?Produced with love by Underknown in Toronto: <a ...
The asteroid, named after the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029—closer than some human-made satellites. While this proximity poses no danger to ...