Astronomers have discovered that the "dark sides" of Uranus' largest moons aren't where they originally thought — and in some ...

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

New Hubble observations reveal unexpected darkening on Uranus’ moons, challenging long-held assumptions about its ...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

Uranus’ moons are darker on their leading sides due to space dust, not radiation damage. Titania and Oberon show cosmic “bug splatter,” changing how we understand this tilted world’s mysterious ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

William Herschel had proposed the name Georgium Sidus for his 1781 discovery to honour King George III. German astronomer ...

An international team used 20 years of data and photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to study Uranus' atmosphere and ...

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading ...

Uranus was discovered – and with it came a host of cosmic mysteries. In this video, we uncover the strange secrets of the solar system’s third-largest planet, from its sideways rotation and faint ...