Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Helioseismology probes the Sun's interior by analyzing the waves that travel through ... This new knowledge gives us a firmer basis for understanding what element abundances in giant planet ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

As the Earth spins on its axis, the sun's first rays grace different parts of the globe at varying times. This phenomenon has ...

As the Earth orbits the sun, it pulls itself through comet tails ... stargazers will have their best opportunity to gaze upon Uranus, the cool blue ice giant with the punchline of a name. The planet ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

The instrument peers out from Parker and away from the Sun to see fine details in the solar wind. But on July 11, 2020, ...

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.