The proposed mission, known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP), would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ...

We need to probe Uranus... this is at least according to boffins who believe the planet needs to become a major exploration ...

A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan ...

Uranus, along with Neptune, is in a class of planets called ice giants. Astronomers have detected more ice giant-sized bodies outside of our solar system than any other kind of exoplanet.

For the month of November, stargazers will have their best opportunity to gaze upon Uranus, the cool blue ice giant with the punchline of a name. The planet will be closer to Earth and brighter in ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...

“So this hypothesis is very compelling.” The idea about the two ice giant planets – so-called because of the freezing conditions in which they formed – was put forward by Burkhard ...