Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

U ranus is a very weird planet, and it turns out that there is a newly discovered oddity to add to its already extensive list. Astronomers used Hubble to study the interactions between the planet's ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest ...

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

On April 7, 2025, Uranus passed directly in front of a star about 400 light years from Earth. ... atmospheric turbulence, and orbit." ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, takes approximately 84 Earth years to orbit the sun. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, ... A passing star could fling Earth out of orbit By Ken Croswell May 28, 2025.