Uranus will enter retrograde on Wednesday (Aug. 24) and appear to reverse its eastward movement across the night sky until January 22. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mike Sori, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) Uranus, the seventh planet from ...

Uranus is an unusual world that spins on its side with a 98-degree tilt, which means the icy planet experiences seasons in an extreme way. One year on Uranus lasts around 84 Earth years, and for ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has aimed its celestial snapshot skills onto the lesser-known ringed planet Uranus more than 1.8 billion miles from the sun.

Two teams have separately concluded that Uranus is releasing more internal heat than was indicated in observations by Voyager 2. Instead of just reflecting heat from the Sun, it adds some of its own.

Blue-green Uranus may not look like much through a telescope, but you can see its small disk at magnifications of 100x and more. Even this close-up look from the Voyager 2 spacecraft fails to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the ...