Uranus looks calm and distant, but its behavior defies nearly every planetary norm. Knocked onto its side by a massive ...

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) hopes to ...

Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts about 97.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Mike Yakovlev Over the last couple of years, planetary scientists ...

"Every component of that system has features that violate some of our ideas about how planets work." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

TEMPE, Ariz. a Quick: What’s the order of the planets in the solar system? Need a little help? Maybe the following mnemonic rings a bell: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pizzas.” It’s ...

Scientists have predicted that there could be large planets the size of Jupiter or Uranus likely trapped at the edge of our solar system, much farther than the hypothetical planet X. Such a planet ...

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 ...

It's easy to think that Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system because it is the farthest from the Sun. Astronomers have been puzzled for years by the fact that Uranus is the coldest planet ...

Our solar system may be small in relation to the universe, but amazingly it's still yielding new discoveries. Scientists have discovered three new moons – two orbiting Neptune and one orbiting Uranus.