A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible ...

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on ...

Astrologer Kyle Thomas reveals what each zodiac sign can expect when Uranus retrograde ends on Jan. 30 Prepare for some big changes. On Jan. 30, Uranus will go direct in the sign of Taurus at 23 ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

Uranus' uniqueness extends to its upper atmosphere, called the thermosphere-corona. That region's temperature is above 500 Celsius, and the heat sources responsible have puzzled astronomers. The ...

Uranus holds the record for the coldest atmosphere of any planet in our solar system, with temperatures at the cloud tops reaching down to -224 degrees Celsius. This extreme cold is due in part to the ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, may initially look like a bland, blue-green ball. But there's a lot to love about the icy giant, from its 13 rings to its 27 known moons to the fact that ...

New research has determined that diamond rain on Neptune and Uranus forms at a lower depth ... and the temperature of more than 2,200 degrees Celsius that prevail inside the icy gas giants with ...

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s ...