Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 on Jan. 14, 1986. A mission to Uranus is now the top future-mission priority of NASA ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon, and Miranda? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Uranus, a largely unexplored giant planet in our solar system, has long been a subject of scientific intrigue. Yet, despite its significance, this ice giant remains one of the most neglected planets ...

Over the last couple of years, planetary scientists have been increasingly calling for a mission to a largely unexplored region of the solar system: Uranus and its moons. Instead, researchers have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Should NASA send a mission to explore Uranus and its moons?

Whenever a planet trends on Twitter, I have to check it out. Uranus popped up in my feed over the weekend because a lot of people thought NASA had asked the public to come up with names for a mission ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA is going to Uranus! This week the National Academy of ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with ...