Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Our planet isn’t the only place in the solar system with dramatic weather changes. Other planets in the solar system also experience seasons, depending on their distance from the sun, and that affects ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – With an 84-year orbit around the sun, it isn’t often that planetary scientists have an opportunity to observe the change of seasons on Uranus, a planet some 19 times farther from the ...

The moons of Uranus may have short-lived atmospheres every time the seasons change. The seasons there are so intense that these tenuous atmospheres, called exospheres, could exist briefly twice every ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...

A pair of images, taken eight years apart, show changes to the ice giant planet as spring arrives in the northern hemisphere. By Kenneth Chang With the passage of the vernal equinox a few days ago, we ...

A new NASA study concludes four of Uranus' 27 moons likely have oceans locked under their icy crusts. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / J. DePasquale (STScI) Some of Uranus' moons likely have deep oceans ...