The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA to begin planning a new mission that will send a spacecraft to the ice giant. The mission is still ...

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a ...

Our solar system has a few new entries with the recent discovery of three moons of Uranus and Neptune. These ice giant planets are so far away that it is difficult to detect small moons orbiting ...

An enhanced image from the high-powered telescope orbiting in space shows the planet Uranus in stunning new detail. The photo captures the icy blue planet's elusive rings, atmospheric storms ...

Six of the solar system's planets - Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - will align on Tuesday night in a ...

“Only by going back to Uranus and orbiting the planet can we really gain an understanding of this curious planet.” Happily, in 2022, the US National Academies outlined that a Uranus Orbiter and Probe ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The six planets were visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21 ...