On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited ...

On January 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! Oberon and Titania were the ...

NASA has officially confirmed a new moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29—and the discovery is raising more questions than answers. The tiny moon is only about 10 km wide, which ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

After weeks of rumors it might get shut down, Hanford’s decades-in-the-making radioactive waste treatment plant is officially moving forward. The “Direct-Feed Low Activity Waste” facility is now less ...

Here on Earth, we are used to having just one moon orbiting around us, but it is well known that other planets have a lot more. Up until recently, the planet Uranus was thought to have 29 moons, but ...

A NASA research team including the University of Idaho Physics Professor, Dr. Matthew Hedman, discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The team used imagery captured from NASA's James Webb Space ...