When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

The data collected will help researchers understand how Uranus’ atmosphere functions and how it has evolved over the past 30 ...

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Have you ever seen a watch made of meteorite? ✓ Daan goes hands-on with Christiaan van der Klaauw's Grand Planetarium ...

It takes the planet 84 years to complete a full orbit around the Sun. A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals Uranus encircled by its four major rings and ten of its seventeen known ...

The planet Uranus was the last gas giant to get the ... The more distant galaxy appears as a ring around the closer one due to the lensing effect. The upshot is that Webb was able to analyze ...