Uranus

Thriller films, Antarctic explorers and female science pioneers featured in an informal naming contest seeking a moniker for a proposed Uranus spacecraft mission.

Dr. Lori Glaze of NASA's Planetary Science Division offered updates about the potential mission at a virtual town hall.

Uranus will reverse its eastward movement Wednesday (Aug. 24) and begin its westward path across the night sky.

The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.

A key committee of scientists has recommended that a flagship mission to Uranus should be NASA's highest-priority large planetary science mission for the next decade.

The distant planet is about to reach opposition, and with the right equipment you'll be able to spot it.

Scientists have imaged the whole globe of Uranus in the infrared part of the light spectrum for the first time, hoping to shed light on the planet's mysterious auroras and weird magnetic field

The 8-hour webcast begins at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT).

A recent discovery of giant ammonia-rich hailstones, dubbed mushballs, on Jupiter might explain why Uranus and Neptune seem to have no ammonia in their atmospheres.