When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity had gathered on the ...

You need binoculars to see Uranus. Point the binoculars toward the Pleiades and put them in the upper-left corner of your binoculars’ view, then Uranus should be in the lower-right corner, forming a ...

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

Uranus appears as a tiny aqua dot against the blackness of space in a region of the sky less than five degrees to the lower right of the Pleiades.

From more than 2 billion miles away, a spacecraft built to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has managed to snap a crisp, ...

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

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On November 21, Uranus will appear the brightest this year, as it enters apposition, or opposition. The term "opposition" in astronomy means a planet located at the opposite side of the Earth from the ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun – The Sideways Planet, known for its chuckling name, this gas giant hanging out in the depths of the solar system has garnered intrigue from skywatchers and ...

In ancient times, there were only five major planets, not including Earth. The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. It’s official—NASA is being sent to orbit the seventh planet ...