On this date, Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona ...

But Uranus and Neptune don't. Instead, their magnetic fields are more of a jumbled maze than an ordered set of lines. Oil and water Earth’s spinning, partly molten core generates much of our ...

Uranus is a beautiful ... successful after the booster that propelled the rocket into space failed to land on a platform in the ocean.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, has held a vital (and smelly) secret of the solar system for decades. An international team of researchers reported on Monday that they've discovered ...

Further, the chemical makeup detected on Uranus shows that the gas giant most likely smells like farts or rotting eggs. Now, obviously, we can’t go out into space or down to Uranus and just ...

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to believe the planet could support life. Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft ...