A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have ...

Hubble Space Telescope precisely measures Uranus' rotation at 17 hours, 14 minutes, 52 seconds, 28 seconds longer than ...

New observations have revealed that a day on Uranus is slightly longer than previously thought. According to scientists, data ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

NASA's vast archive of science data, over 100 petabytes and counting, is proving to be a timeless treasure trove for new ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

The hidden moons were discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, and the discovery brings the moon counts for these planets to 28 and 16, respectively. The discovery of these hidden moons is both ...

Its discovery in 1789 in the mineral pitchblende (or uraninite) is credited to the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth who named it after the planet Uranus, itself only discovered eight years ...