The other object is 2014 NX 65, which is definitely not resonant with Uranus but might have an inner 3:2 resonance with ...

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In recent days, you may have seen articles claiming the "best meteor shower of the year" is about to start. Unfortunately, ...

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

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...

A new study revealed Uranus’s structure as a planet changed and brightened significantly over the past 20 years. The study, performed by researchers from the University of Arizona and the ...

This rare event lasted about an hour on April 7 and was only visible from western North America. The last time a bright stellar occultation of Uranus occurred was 1996, so NASA came prepared.

However, at Neptune’s surface, the gravity is only about 1.1 times the gravity we experience on Earth. In other words, if something weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would find it weighs 110 pounds on ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

In ’After the North Pole,' explorer chronicles impossible challenges Nonfiction: An engaging history of the quest to reach the North Pole from a Norwegian explorer who knows all about extreme trips.