Uranus

A view of Uranus captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. Credit: NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute

How was Uranus discovered?

How to see Uranus

Observing guide How to see Uranus in the night sky

A mission to Uranus could teach us a lot, including about the early Solar System. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library

Why we should send a spacecraft to explore Uranus

Uranus by Voyager 2

A guide to the planets Uranus

Uranus (left) and Neptune (right), as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA

A guide to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune

Uranus's rings imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997 in infrared and visible light. Image credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA

The discovery of Uranus’s rings

Weather in the Solar System

These massive storms on Uranus were captured on 5 and 6 August 2014 by the Keck Observatory. Image credit: Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley)/Keck Observatory

Raging storm discovered on Uranus

An image of Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Uranus’s clouds smell like rotten eggs

mages of Uranus (left) and Neptune (right), as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / NASA

NASA to explore Uranus and Neptune

An image of Uranus and its rings captured by the Keck II telescope Source: W. M. Keck Observatory (Marcos van Dam)

New moons around Uranus?