Long before the world knew Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and the Olympians, an older generation ruled the cosmos. Among them stood ...

Uranus's mysteriously asymmetrical and skewed magnetic field has long confounded astronomers—until now. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped past Uranus in 1986, it noticed that the huge gas giant's ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

You’ve got a great chance to see the planet George this week in our skies, as it has a very close celestial hug with the best ...

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full ...

Uranus is emitting X-rays, and scientists want to take a closer look. That's the mysterious conclusion of a new study, which analyzed two visuals of the planet and discovered X-ray activity for the ...

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 ...