👉The Only Close Visit to Uranus Ever Made On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 made history by becoming the first—and still the only—spacecraft to fly past Uranus. After traveling through the outer solar system for nine years, it passed just 81,500 kilometers above the planet’s cloud tops, giving humanity its first close look at this distant ice giant. Before Voyager 2’s arrival, Uranus appeared as little more than a blue-green dot through telescopes on Earth. That brief flyby changed everythi

Planet Uranus | James Webb Space Telescope FriendsofNASA.org: This image of Uranus from the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in new clarity. The planet’s seasonal north polar cap gleams in a bright white, and Webb’s exquisite sensitivity resolves Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings, including the Zeta ring—the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet. This Webb image also sh