At the time of this writing, June 23, Jupiter was about half a degree left of the afternoon Sun and due to pass behind it ...

Home sweet home If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest moons—but instead, they stumbled upon a surprising discovery. They ...

More Astronomers have discovered that the "dark sides" of Uranus ' largest moons aren't where they originally thought — and in some cases are on the complete opposite sides of the icy satellites ...

On March 13, 1781, Uranus was discovered – and with it came a host of cosmic mysteries. In this video, we uncover the strange secrets of the solar system’s third-largest planet, from its ...

William Herschel had proposed the name Georgium Sidus for his 1781 discovery to honour King George III. German astronomer Johann Elert Bode later suggested Uranus, the Latinised name of the Greek god ...

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Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing it as a planet. Credit: NASA/JPL / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain While ...