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

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

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

That's why scientists were eager to study Uranus's magnetosphere, and what they saw in the Voyager 2 data in 1986 flummoxed ...

The findings of the flyby indicated the planet’s radiation belts were incredibly intense, second only to Jupiter’s. Yet the ...

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

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 ...

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order ...

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

expansive Jupiter (who’s currently moonwalking in Gemini) and sentimental Neptune (who is backpedaling in Pisces), urging us ...

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