On May 14, 2000, hundreds of thousands of mothers and other gun-control advocates took part in the "Million Mom March" in ...

The rings around Uranus have mystified astronomers for almost half a century. Now, thanks to a combination of ground- and space-based telescopic observations, scientists think they’ve worked out where ...

The cold, icy world of Uranus is framed by a pair of rings that orbit the planet at twice the distance of its main ring system. Each ring tells a different story — the outermost ring appears blue, ...

The ice giant Uranus is one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system, with its sideways rotation, intricate ring system, and unique family of moons. However, it is also one of the least ...

Discover 9 interesting facts about Uranus! Learn why this ice giant spins on its side, the secrets of the rings of Uranus, and more fun space mysteries. Most planets spin like tops around the sun. But ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has only been visited once by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which performed a flyby of the ice giant in 1986. It came within just tens of thousands of miles of ...

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the most detailed map yet of Uranus's upper atmosphere. The planet's tilted rotation and offset magnetic field cause its auroras to be complex ...

Among the solar system’s planets, Uranus is criminally overlooked. Much like its outer solar system neighbor, Neptune, this “ice giant” world is so far from the sun (and so visually bland) that we ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...

On Feb. 3, Uranus will finally station direct, after a retrograde journey that began in September last year Everything you thought was solid is shifting, and there’s no turning back! On Feb. 3, Uranus ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system planets' interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...