Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

Unlike any other planet in the solar system, Uranus appeared to be sterile, as did its moons. Now, nearly 40 years later, ...

New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien ...

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

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...

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

This means that scientists believed in nearly four decades that the planet Uranus and its five largest moons were dead worlds ...

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.

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

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.

New research indicates that Uranus's moon Miranda may be hiding a subsurface ocean, challenging many assumptions about its ...