A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...
Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.
Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...
Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...
A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...
The curious minds at What If reveal why there are massive diamonds on the planet Uranus, exploring planetary formation, pressure, and chemistry.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons missions have observed Uranus, providing different views from across the solar system, to help the study of exoplanets. Two of NASA'’s most famous ...
Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, is sometimes visible with the unaided eye. Credit: Creators.com illustration How many planets are there in our solar system? Nine? Eight? Twelve?
Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has ...