This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

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created a vivid animated simulation to show how many Earths would fit into larger planets such as Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. The simulation also showed how many moons from other planets ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...