The planets Uranus and Neptune are the farthest away from us in the solar system, so scientists don’t really know much about ...

Scientists have uncovered the secret ingredient fueling supercharged storms on Uranus and Neptune: methane.

It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...

Uranus is virtually unexplored. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe flew close to Uranus on January 24, 1986. It gave us our only close-up images of Uranus and discovered 10 new moons. Uranus has 27 moons ...

An image of Ariel, a moon of Uranus. Voyager 2. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal ... [+] Images Group via Getty Images) Not much is known about Ariel. NASA’s Voyager 2 photographed ...

By making use of the gravity of one planet to sling itself to the next planet, Voyager 2 not only visited its initial targets of Jupiter and Saturn, but also made its way to Uranus and Neptune as ...

Prof Irwin said: “Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ colour, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore ...

Prof Irwin said: “Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ colour, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore ...

Unlike the 1974 alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune captured by the Voyager spacecraft, the planets visible on August 28th will be flung across the sky at varied depths, distances ...

Yet scientists have already suspected Uranus' five largest moons -- Ariel and Miranda included -- may have subsurface oceans. Voyager 2 images of both moons show physical signs of geologic ...

The Voyager mission took advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and the 1980s, an alignment that only takes place about every 185 years.