A new mission concept, recently presented at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, promises to take humanity one step closer to unraveling the icy mysteries of Uranus. The CASMIUS (Coupled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...

The ice giant Uranus is one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system, with its sideways rotation, intricate ring ...

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to what can drive ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus. Our solar system's ice giant is famed for how it spins sideways.

When it's not busy dissecting distant galaxies or creating dark matter maps, the James Webb Space Telescope is also making a name for itself closer to home. To wit, it has produced the first-ever ...

The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has watched Uranus' upper atmosphere for almost a full Uranian day. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / P. Tiranti / H. Melin / M. Zamani Scientists have mapped the upper ...