On Thursday, June 11th, at 12 pm PDT / 3 pm EDT / 19:00 UTC, Uranus, as viewed from Earth, will disappear behind a very large, obnoxious interloper. This is the day of the occultation of Uranus, as ...

If you have some free time this weekend, why not tune into an astronomy broadcast showing astronomers investigating the distant ice giant planet Uranus? Experts will be using a ground-based telescope ...

This Thursday evening, it’s time to get better acquainted with Uranus. At 6:30 p.m. PDT, the online astronomy site Slooh will be pointing its telescope in the Canary Islands at the third largest ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

Uranus has been the butt of a lot of jokes (stop giggling). And it doesn't help that it's huge — roughly four times the size of Earth — or gassy with an atmosphere comprised partly of methane. Or, as ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

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Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...