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 ...

The cosmos is always in motion, and it allows spectators to see some cool stuff. As the Earth orbits the sun, it pulls itself through comet tails, resulting in meteor showers, and occasionally picks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...

If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be interested to know that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

WASHINGTON — Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system — two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The distant tiny moons were spotted using powerful ...

Uranus has been the butt of a lot of jokes (stop giggling). And it doesn't help that it's huge — roughly four times the size of Earth — or gassy with an atmosphere comprised partly of methane. Or, as ...

"Every component of that system has features that violate some of our ideas about how planets work." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The word "retrograde” often can’t help but fuel panic that everyday life is about to get flipped upside down, but the truth of the matter is that planets are going retrograde all year long. And ...