MIT researchers have outlined how SpaceX’s Starship rocket, refueled in Earth orbit, could cut the travel time for NASA’s ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been gazing at signals that left the solar system before many of today’s graduate students were even born for decades on a peaceful patch of desert ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first vertical view of Uranus's upper atmosphere, delivering an unprecedented look at the planet's ionosphere and auroral structures. The new ...

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to map Uranus's upper atmosphere in three dimensions. The planet's tilted rotation and offset magnetic field create complex auroras unlike those on ...

On January 19, the Webb space telescope stared deep into the chaotic world of Uranus for 17 hours, observing as the faint glow from molecules above the planet’s clouds meets its unusual magnetic field ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...

On Feb. 3, Uranus will finally station direct, after a retrograde journey that began in September last year Everything you thought was solid is shifting, and there’s no turning back! On Feb. 3, Uranus ...

For decades, scientists have grouped Uranus and Neptune with other ice giants like Saturn and Jupiter, assuming that their interiors were primarily made up of water, methane, and ammonia. The ...

…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

Small, icy moons might be boiling under their surface. Many moons in the outer solar system are thought to harbor subsurface oceans beneath their icy crusts. New computer simulations, reported ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...