The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...

The energized particles around the planet defied their understanding of how magnetic fields work to trap particle radiation .

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

They suggest this solar storm likely squashed the planet’s magnetic bubble, pushing plasma out of it, and intensified ...

They suggest this solar storm likely squashed the planet’s magnetic bubble, pushing plasma out of it, and intensified radiation belts – areas of charged particles trapped on magnetic field lines ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...