A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

Miranda, the deformed and most undersized of Uranus' large moons, features a patchwork of ridges, valleys, and great cliffs. Scientists consider its mixed-up surface to be the product of intense ...

Astronomers spot new tiny moons around Neptune and Uranus Scientists say reining in the exact timing of Uranus’ full rotation took an “innovative method” and used more than a decade of ...

Captured by the now legendary Voyager 2 mission, this picture of Miranda, a moon of Uranus, was enough to serve as inspiration for a new book, proving photography of all kinds is essential to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It orbits Uranus every 680 days and has been named S/2023 U1. Consistent with tradition, this new moon, like all outer satellites of Uranus, will be named after a character from a Shakespeare play.

Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths, and moons orbit around planets. Asteroids and comets move in paths which are more oval in shape. The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects ...