A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...

The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded.Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the ...

El Moutamid is the principal investigator of a Webb program dedicated to analyzing the structure and dynamics of the typically hidden rings and inner moons of Uranus. The glow of Uranus’ rings and the ...

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

Though the rings appear solid from afar, they’re actually a dynamic, rotating system of icy debris. One theory suggests they ...

Uranus's moons — what is unique about each moon and why do they orbit at a tilt?

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual tilt, faint rings, and puzzling family of satellites. The discovery, ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun. This conclusion, arrived at by two independent teams of ...

This quiz will challenge your knowledge of Uranus's strange rotation, chilly atmosphere, and curious collection of moons.

Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result may help scientists learn more about this enigmatic ice giant planet in our Solar ...