Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists ...

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being ...

New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space — ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event. Much of the understanding of the ...

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...