When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus — an ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

Berkeley — As the rings of Uranus swing edge-on to Earth – a short-lived view we get only once every 42 years – astronomers observing the event are getting an unprecedented, glare-free view of the ...

Two of Earth’s neighbors are on track to be in opposition, providing amateur and professional astronomers a clearer, brighter view of them both. Beginning on Thursday until Friday, Nov. 3, Jupiter ...

How can something as small as the moon cover Uranus, a planet four times the diameter of Earth? Easy! The moon is 7,280 times closer to us, so its apparent size is almost 500 times bigger. That's how.

(NewsNation) — Stargazers will have a chance to see Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system, just after midnight EST. The early hours of Nov. 13 will bring an ideal opportunity to ...

"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 ...

For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of ...

This documentary explores the unimaginable scenario of Uranus colliding with Earth, breaking down the science, the ...

The ground is snapping and popping. Ever hear this? On quiet evenings in the country in mid-spring, you can walk up to a roadside ditch along the edge of the forest and listen to green plants pushing ...