We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...

On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise measurements yet of the stinky planet's rotation rate, a full day on Uranus lasts ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade". Throughout much of January and February, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ...

…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally published at ...

"Ultimately, we just need to go back to the Uranus system and see for ourselves." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ariel, one of ...