As the worlds of the Solar System go, Uranus is among the weirdest. Its peculiar properties, from internal heating to its crooked magnetic fields, have left astronomers baffled. Maybe it is not even ...

If you were able to land on Uranus, which you can’t because it is made of gas, you would be greeted with something that smells a whole lot like someone just broke wind. However, an exoplanet in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of Uranus (left) and Neptune from Hubble Space Telescope observations. | Credit ...

"Ultimately, we just need to go back to the Uranus system and see for ourselves." Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the extreme winds observed around their equators. While some of these planets have ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ariel, Uranus' second-closest moon, shows bright, fractured terrain that may have formed above a ...