Rings were first discovered in 1977 around Uranus, when astronomers observed a star dim multiple times as the planet passed ...

Scientists studying the rings of Uranus have uncovered evidence that its outer rings contain both water ice and carbon-rich ...

On April 25, Uranus enters Gemini for the first time in more than eight decades, beginning a bold new era that will unfold ...

Uranus has been waffling back and forth between Aries, Taurus and Gemini since 2018. Now, the “great awakener” planet is ...

Growing up in the 1980s meant sitting in classrooms with laminated posters on the wall, a globe in the corner, and a science ...

THE Sun’s world famous Mystic Meg horoscope column has entertained readers for decades with predictions for their love lives, ...

Getting to Uranus had always been a fascination for many scientists. However, because of its immense distance from Earth, any mission there was always seen as one that took decades to complete.

The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simulations by Carnegie's Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen.

Throughout most of recorded history, humankind had known only six planets, five in the sky — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — plus Earth once it became generally accepted in the 17th century ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has only been visited once by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which performed a flyby of the ice giant in 1986. It came within just tens of thousands of miles of ...

The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

On January 19, the Webb space telescope stared deep into the chaotic world of Uranus for 17 hours, observing as the faint glow from molecules above the planet’s clouds meets its unusual magnetic field ...