Uranus, with its peculiar tilt of nearly 59 degrees, has always been one of the most enigmatic planets in our solar system.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

The paper "Solving the mystery of the electron radiation belt at Uranus: Leveraging knowledge of Earth's radiation belts in a re-examination of Voyager 2 observations" is published in Geophysical ...

Get ready for a massive shake-up! On July 7, for the first time in 84 years, Uranus — also known as the Great Awakener — is entering the curious and cerebral sign of Gemini, where it will flip the ...

Every decade, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sit down and identify our next priorities for space exploration. This is important stuff because it helps shape what we’ll ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON – Uranus will be visible without ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA is going to Uranus! This week the National Academy of ...

“If your sky is cloudy tonight, or if you can’t get to a dark location, don’t worry: Uranus will be in this same location for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The planet Uranus just keeps getting weirder. The icy gas world that strangely orbits the sun on ...

Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue, and we may finally know why. In visible-light images, Uranus appears a pale blue, while Neptune is a deeper, cobalt hue. Using data from the Hubble ...

NEW ORLEANS — The giant impact from an Earth-size rock that knocked Uranus sideways may have also helped create the tilted planet's moons, a new study finds. The poles along which Earth spins are ...