Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts ...

Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.

This makes calculating the length of a Uranian day hard enough, but it's further complicated by Uranus being tilted at 98 degrees on its axis, so it's essentially rolling on its side, with the poles ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

The cosmos is always in motion, and it allows spectators to see some cool stuff. As the Earth orbits the sun, it pulls itself through comet tails, resulting in meteor showers, and occasionally picks ...

Let’s stop pretending, shall we? Because really, we’re not fooling anyone. Uranus is funny. It was funny when you were twelve, and it’s funny now. It was certainly funny when I was a boy and went to a ...

On Saturday (Jan. 28) the moon will move in front of Uranus obstructing the view of the distant ice giant planet and causing it to disappear from the night sky in an arrangement that astronomers call ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA is going to Uranus! This week the National Academy of ...