A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited ...

Three images of Uranus that are blue, green and red showing a weird bright spot A vortex of relatively warm air has been detected swirling beneath Uranus' clouds, providing strong evidence for the ...

'We were wrong' - Uranus and Neptune Might Not Be "Ice Giants" After All ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with ...

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Uranus enters Krittika Third Pada in Taurus on January 20, 2026. This transit brings major transformation and disruptive energy. Aries, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius will experience significant ...

This year promises to be a spectacular one for skywatchers, offering an exceptional mix of planetary alignments, eclipses, ...