Uranus is undoubtedly the most oddly named planet in our Solar System, but things could have been worse. After all, being the ...

Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out than the Earth - Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope, in 1781.

Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and ... Uranus Aurora Discovery Offers Clues to Habitable Icy Worlds Oct. 26, 2023 — Astronomers confirm the existence of an infrared ...

Images from a space mission in the 1980s showed Neptune to be a rich blue and Uranus green. But a study has discovered that the two ice giant planets are both similar shades of greenish blue.

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of three previously unknown moons of Uranus and Neptune. The latest addition brings Uranus's total moon ...