A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

They also weigh about the same, with Neptune coming in at 1.024 x 10^26 kg (about 17 times the mass of Earth) and Uranus weighing 8.682 x 10^25 kg (about 14 times the mass of Earth). What's more ...

Hubble’s 20-year study of Uranus reveals dramatic atmospheric shifts, from methane mysteries to polar brightening, reshaping ...

Thomas confirms that "yes," us people of Earth will be affected by the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in accordance with our zodiac signs. "There is an astrological meaning for everything," he tells ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on ...

2024 — When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are ...

Uranus takes a little over 84 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the sun. So, over two decades, the Hubble team has only seen mostly northern spring as the sun moves from shining directly ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

A quick guide to the planet Uranus, which is composed of gas and ... as well as locating their position in relation to Earth and the Sun. The children could choose to study one planet in detail ...