Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune did not always have their current positions in the solar system. According to the planetary-instability model, they were born a little closer to the Sun and closer ...

New research on the Uranian moon Ariel suggests the icy world may be hiding a deep secret. Credit: NASA / JPL Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — ...

Like the ice giant itself, Uranus' moons orbit the sun on their sides and this is just one element that makes them some of the most unusual bodies in the solar system.

San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is over the moon about its latest discovery. Leading a James Webb Space Telescope Survey, scientists from the foundation have discovered a new ...

The rings around Uranus have mystified astronomers for almost half a century. Now, thanks to a combination of ground- and space-based telescopic observations, scientists think they’ve worked out where ...