Two teams have separately concluded that Uranus is releasing more internal heat than was indicated in observations by Voyager ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Only four other comets have ever shown such activity while approaching from more than 20 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun — as far out as the orbit of Uranus. (One AU is the average Earth ...

Uranus will appear in the Aries constellation ... The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed and distance. During these alignments ...

But Uranus and Neptune may require a telescope ... This happens because the planets orbit around the sun in the same plane. Dr. van Belle likened the configuration to a vinyl record: The sun ...