The Nu ring seems to be fed by unknown rocky bodies, whereas the Mu ring appears rich in water ice and linked to the moon Mab ...

Rings were first discovered in 1977 around Uranus, when astronomers observed a star dim multiple times as the planet passed ...

What's behind the odd magnetic fields observed around ice giants? Why, quasi-1D superionic hydrogen, of course.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun and is an ice giant. Uranus only has a very small rocky core. One of the most interesting facts about Uranus is that it rotates on its ...

In ancient times, there were only five major planets, not including Earth. The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the ...

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 ...

A study has finally determined where Uranus gets its heat. Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined that the gas giant ...

Two faint rings circling Uranus look almost identical in photographs, but when astronomers finally split their light into a full color spectrum, the rings turned out to be made of strikingly different ...

See Venus and Uranus in conjunction on Thursday, April 23, as the “Evening Star” sweeps close to the Pleiades open star ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA is going to Uranus! This week the National Academy of ...