The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of ...

Uranus’ new moon, S/2025 U1, was discovered in February 2025 and is approximately 6 miles in diameter, orbiting Uranus at a ...

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.

A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation — 28 seconds longer than the ...

A new study by experts from Nasa and the University of Oxford suggests that Uranus gives out more heat than it receives from the Sun.

The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, or 28 seconds longer than the best previous estimate made by NASA’s Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.

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 to the ice giant. Here's what actually went down.

Uranus will be in opposition on Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. UTC, which translates to 10 a.m. ET and 7 a.m. PT. The best nights to view Uranus from an astrological standpoint will be Nov. 16 to 18, as that ...

Some also suggested naming it after Odin, the Norse God who fought ice giants, or Caelus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Uranus. Whether we'll actually ever see a mission to Uranus any time ...