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 ...

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

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

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

Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left ...

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

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 ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy | Space ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...