NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Uranus while flying by the ice giant in 1986. The first panel of this artist’s concept depicts how Uranus’s magnetosphere — its protective bubble — was behaving ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an "ice giant" known for its unique sideways rotation and extreme seasons, and it was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. Uranus is classified as an ...

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on ...