A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets ...

Throughout January, four planets will line up in the night sky and be simultaneously visible to the naked eye in the Northern ...

Uranus is still an oddball, rotating sideways and taking 84 years to orbit the Sun. But Voyager’s flyby set up Uranus to be an outlier of the solar system when the spacecraft showed the planet ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

so finding out how much the Uranian moons sway in orbit may give scientists the information they need to determine whether or not Uranus's moons have oceans inside of them. These sways are ...

In the plot of the orbit of Uranus the planet and the orbit of the outer satellite OberOn are magnifed 1,000 times in order to show their relative dimensions, and the proportion between the axes ...

Scientists say that the ingredients for life may exist on some of the moons in our system, including the icy worlds that orbit Uranus. If alien life does exist there, it is likely living deep ...

Stargazers won't need any special equipment to view the four-planet alignment as it will be visible to the naked eye. However, if you have a telescope, you can spot two additional planets, Uranus and ...

The North pole is at 4 o'clock. On its 84 Earth-years orbit of the sun, the blue-green planet Uranus—the third-largest planet in our solar system—is about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion ...

Uranus and Mercury will be visible in the eastern night sky. All five planets will be spread out along the ecliptic—the plane of the solar system upon which all planets orbit closely to.

Mars is on the cusp of becoming bigger and brighter than at any point since 2022 as it comes into alignment with Earth and ...