The Milky Way. Credit: ESA/ Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Mythology and astral symbolism. In Greek mythology, Uranus was the primordial sky god, father of the ...

Six planets - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus - made an appearance together in a celestial spectacle that captured the attention of sky-gazers across the globe on Saturday night.

Depiction of Uranus on the Pergamon Altar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0. The connection between the Bible’s story of Noah and Greek mythology is usually discussed in the context of the ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system. That ...

A year after Hershel's discovery, writes Popular Science, German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name: Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god of the sky: Ouranos (Ew-rah-nose).

A year after Hershel's discovery, writes Popular Science, German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name: Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god of the sky: Ouranos (Ew-rah-nose).

Hesiod’s 700 BC poem Theogony describes the Giants as born from the blood of Uranus, ... For Greek mythology fans, you might spend your time identifying the background gods like Aphrodite, ...

All Hades 2 Gods. Greek myth, including the stories and characters, has always been incredibly fluid after being passed down orally for thousands of years, and Supergiant Games made it their ...

In Greek mythology, Uranus was the first sky god, says Ash, who locked his children in the Underworld, who were then challenged to avenge their demise by Gaea, aka the personification of the earth.