Near-infrared image of Uranus ring system taken with the Adaptive Optics system on the 10-m Keck telescope in July 2004. This image, taken at 2.2 micron wavelength, shows the main ring system in ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took its sights on the ice giant Uranus recently and captured some interesting views that include rings, moons, storms and a seasonal polar cap Take a look for ...

This infrared image of Uranus from the W.M. Keck Observatory shows the rare ring-plane crossing in 2007 and is the first image of the unlit side of the rings of Uranus. The Sun itself will cross ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly ...

Uranus, which orbits almost 20 times further from the sun than Earth does, has 28 known moons and two sets of rings. The Voyager 2 observations had suggested that its two largest moons - Titania ...

Four decades years after their discovery, the 13 mysterious rings around Uranus surprised astronomers again this summer. In June, new images captured their warm glow for the first time.

The James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms ...