Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Does it rain diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Scientists uncover how extreme pressure and temperature deep inside these ice giants create a continuous diamond rain.

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world ...

"The number of these storms, and how frequently and where they appear in Uranus's atmosphere, might be due to a combination of seasonal and meteorological effects," NASA said in a press release.

This wider view of the Uranian system with Webb’s NIRCam instrument features the planet Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons (most of which are too small and faint to be seen in this short ...

Researchers had long suspected that Uranus's atmosphere was laced with hydrogen sulfide, and in concentrations dozens of times higher than at Saturn or Jupiter. They couldn't be certain ...

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Uranus and Neptune are the furthest planets ... But Mercury has almost no atmosphere, so it does not hold onto this heat. The side facing away from the Sun cools down to -180°C at night.