Uranus was one of the earliest gods in Greek mythology. He was the god of the sky and the son/husband of Gaia, the mother of the Earth.

Second, Saturn is the father of Jupiter in mythology, and Uranus’s Roman counterpart (Caelus) is the father of Saturn, making a neat hierarchy in the order of the planets.

Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event; ... It is the only planet to be named after a Greek god rather than a Roman one.

On Saturday, May 17th, Uranus, our side-spinning planet of rebellion, liberation, and chaos with a capital C aligns with the Sun in the pleasure pastures of Taurus. Read on to learn more about how ...

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 ...

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years. A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Astronomers have discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus — the first spotted in nearly 20 years — and two new moons around Neptune.

Uranus has 27 moons and, ... All of them represent Greek and Roman water mythology. The largest moon is Triton, which is nearly as large as Earth’s Moon. The most recently discovered ...

Both Neptunian moons will be assigned permanent names based on sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology. Related: Uranus and Neptune are actually similar blues, 'true' color images reveal.

Some also suggested naming it after Odin, the Norse God who fought ice giants, or Caelus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Uranus. Whether we'll actually ever see a mission to Uranus any time ...

Uranus' new moon, S/2023 U1, is only around 5 miles (8 kilometers) across, making it one of the smallest known moons around any of the eight planets in the solar system, alongside Mars' minute ...