While space harbors plenty of mysteries, it turns out that Uranus' smell isn't one of them. Here's the explanation for why it ...

The probe tried to see which chemicals were in Uranus' clouds during its 1986 flyby, but it couldn't tell scientists for certain. Now, however, astronomers have used an instrument at the Gemini ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

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 ...

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 ...

Its atmosphere is the coldest of any planet in our solar system, and contains clouds of methane, hydrogen sulphide and ammonia. It is this methane that gives the planet its distinctive aquamarine ...

Uranus’ clouds are made up of hydrogen sulphide, meaning they have a very similar smell to rotten eggs. Gross. If we ever manage to travel to the gas planets, you might be in for a bit of a ...

Uranus is undoubtedly the most oddly named planet ... into a vast dynamic region in which stars evolved from clouds of nebulous material,” Linton wrote. “In so doing he became the pioneer ...

The second half of January has featured an alignment of six planets in the night sky which only occurs every 400 years.

Uranus’ clouds are made up of hydrogen sulphide, meaning they have a very similar smell to rotten eggs. Gross. If we ever manage to travel to the gas planets, you might be in for a bit of a ...