Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

Each week, Life's Little Mysteries presents The Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos, starting with our solar system. More than a billion and a half miles away from Earth looms a huge, cyan-colored world ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

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, according to new simulations designed to figure ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

Uranus is currently observable in the constellation Taurus, approximately 4.5° south-southeast of the Pleiades star cluster. Binocular observation of Uranus is facilitated by its proximity to 14 Tauri ...

The moons revolving around Uranus and Neptune may have been formed from large rings that used to surround the planets. According to a report published Thursday in the journal Science, such rings may ...

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Uranus hosts yet another moon, which looks like a tiny, faint smudge in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers report in an Aug. 19 NASA release. The newfound object makes the ...

Each week, Life's Little Mysteries presents The Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos, starting with our solar system. More than a billion and a half miles away from Earth looms a huge, cyan-colored world ...