Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The six-planet parade will feature Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter ...

Voyager caught Uranus in a rare magnetic storm, and a 40-year mystery became a mission case for understanding volatile ice ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...

Everything we know about Uranus’s radiation belts comes from one brief fly-by in 1986, when Voyager 2 passed the planet. For decades, scientists have .

Every once in a while, the mechanics of our solar system grant Earth and its residents a better-than-average view, as is the ...

On Feb. 3, Uranus will finally station direct, after a retrograde journey that began in September last year Everything you thought was solid is shifting, and there’s no turning back! On Feb. 3, Uranus ...

Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered at Uranus, left, and Neptune to study the so-called "ice giant" planets, but little is known about their interior composition. Credit: NASA / ESA / M. Showalter / ...

Uranus’ strangely intense radiation belts may not be permanent at all. Instead, new research suggests they were the short-lived aftermath of a powerful solar storm that happened to strike during ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...