When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

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

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

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

Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that ...

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

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

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

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 ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.