In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...
The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that ...
they could sell in either that system or on the voluntary market. Experts expect UN-approved credits to carry a higher price ...
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...