But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...
What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon, and Miranda? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...
The powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to spot a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus.
Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
On September 5, 1977, the power situation was a good deal healthier when the mission got underway. Launched just over two weeks after Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was scheduled to make flybys of Jupiter and ...
Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...