Assuming you’ve accepted Pluto’s demotion, Uranus and Neptune are the two planets in our Solar System farthest from Earth. That distance means humanity is still learning a lot about them. Some of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s been a big year for Uranus. We’ve learned quite a bit about the planet thanks to new ...

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 ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

The planet Uranus was given its tilt after being hit in a "cataclysmic collision" by a massive object roughly twice the size of Earth, new research has suggested. A study by researchers at Durham ...

Two telescopes have teamed up to measure of a distant alien world about the size of Uranus that had remained almost a complete mystery since its discovery a decade ago. The exoplanet, known as ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

A team of scientists explains Uranus' lopsided angle, its freezing temperatures, and irregular magnetic fields. Durham University researchers ran detailed computer simulations to explain Uranus' ...

Sky-gazers will have a good chance of seeing the icy planet Uranus from just 1.7 billion miles away Thursday night — without the help of a telescope. Uranus is making a close approach to our planet, ...

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