When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus — an ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of ...

Uranus is the only planet that rotates sideways with a 98-degree tilt. Learn why Uranus spins this way, how its seasons last ...

(NewsNation) — Stargazers will have a chance to see Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system, just after midnight EST. The early hours of Nov. 13 will bring an ideal opportunity to ...

Two of Earth’s neighbors are on track to be in opposition, providing amateur and professional astronomers a clearer, brighter view of them both. Beginning on Thursday until Friday, Nov. 3, Jupiter ...

How can something as small as the moon cover Uranus, a planet four times the diameter of Earth? Easy! The moon is 7,280 times closer to us, so its apparent size is almost 500 times bigger. That's how.

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...

The ground is snapping and popping. Ever hear this? On quiet evenings in the country in mid-spring, you can walk up to a roadside ditch along the edge of the forest and listen to green plants pushing ...

This documentary explores the unimaginable scenario of Uranus colliding with Earth, breaking down the science, the ...