The planet Uranus on a black background. The planet appears light blue, with a large, white patch on the right side. On the edge of that patch at the upper left is a bright white spot.

In the 1980s, for example, Uranus appeared as a "placid, solid blue ball," according to NASA. But today, high-definition cameras that use infrared wavelengths can capture the faintest details of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed new photos of Uranus, which displayed a mysterious white orb covering a large portion of the ice giant.

Uranus has the most extreme seasons in the solar system because it spins on its side at a tilt of about 98 degrees, according to NASA. While the sun shines over one pole, the other pole is plunged ...

Each of the planets in the Solar System has a unique personality. Earth is a bustling hub of weird life forms, Jupiter is a massive … ...

On April 7, 2025, star HIP 16271 was occulted by Uranus. As a star, it is by no means famous. A yellow-white star in the constellation of Taurus, not bright enough to be visible to the naked eye ...

We’re Going To Uranus! NASA Will Spend $4.2 Billion And $4.9 ... a planetary scientist and astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and lead author of a white paper proposing a Uranus ...

Voyager 2 flyby shows blue Ice Giant Uranus. Atmospheric pressure at depth will ultimately destroy the Uranus probe’s metal. For comparison, standing on Earth, we experience 1 bar of pressure ...

Uranus, a huge gaseous world some 1.8 billion miles from the sun, is quite stormy. NASA's long-lived Hubble telescope spotted a notable storm churning inside the planet's blue-green atmosphere ...

Or, as NASA describes Uranus, "a bit lonely." No spacecraft other than Voyager 2 has flown by our seventh planet from the sun. Alone but certainly unique, Uranus rotates at a nearly 90-degree ...

In January 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 reached Uranus after traveling 1.8 billion miles over nine years. It took three years for Voyager 2 to pass Neptune as it made its way out of the solar system.