This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

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 has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

An alignment of seven planets will be visible in Friday's evening sky. Here's when and where to view the celestial phenomenon ...

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

This happens because the planets in our solar system essentially orbit the sun along the same line across a ... high-powered ...

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

An alignment of seven planets will appear, whether by the naked eye or with the use of a telescope, this month in the U.S. Here's how to spot it.

Mercury is joining Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune for a seven-planet parade. It's a stargazer's paradise.

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s ...

In the 1840s, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier noticed the outermost planet of our solar system at the time, Uranus, wobbled a bit in its orbit. He reasoned that there must be another planet ...