Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune each emit more energy than they receive from the Sun, meaning they have comparatively warm ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Uranus, becoming the first,and so far, only probe to closely study ...

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...

The images are negatives and prints from the Voyager imaging computer, and include ranging data and image processing information as well was the image itself. The images cover the major moons of ...

Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest of the cosmos seems to b ...

A combination of images and spectra captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show a giant plume ... Can atmospheres survive on rocky worlds orbiting active red dwarf stars? Is Uranus's moon Ariel ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Uranus is unlike any other planet in space. It tilts sideways, spinning like a barrel in orbit. Each pole gets 42 years of ...