With the final supermoon of the year and the peak of one of the most famous meteor shower displays, this weekend will be ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

Among the solar system's eight planets, only Jupiter and Saturn are larger. Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

Scientists gathered much of the knowledge about Uranus after NASA's robotic spacecraft conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

Opposition happens once a year for each planet in the solar system except Venus and Mercury. Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be ...

When Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, scientists were searching far and wide for an unknown celestial body to explain some irregularities in Uranus' orbit. Tombaugh, a newly minted ...

Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the sun like a rolling ball. Uranus, which orbits almost 20 times further from the sun than Earth does, has 28 known moons and two sets of rings.