Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

The solar system's oddball planet has some pretty odd moons, too. The first infrared spectra of Uranus's small inner moons, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...

Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

Kelly Beatty: "Uranus is the third-largest planet in our solar system (three times the diameter of Earth). But its orbit is so far away, nearly 2 billion miles from the Sun, that it looks very dim in ...

NASA's Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used ...

Get ready because this electric opposition comes with major plot twists Some revelations hit you like lightning, arriving when you least expect them. On Nov. 19, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio will ...

On November 20, Callisto will begin a transit across the disk of Jupiter at 5:53 A.M. EST. Uranus will reach opposition on November 20 at 7 A.M. EST, presenting the optimal viewing period for the ice ...

Knut von Salzen receives funding from the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening Research Program, which is funded by a consortium of individual and foundation donors. He is affiliated ...

**Planetary Observational Events:** Uranus reaches opposition on November 21st, positioned within Taurus and offering an optimal viewing period for its 4" disk near the Pleiades. A close conjunction ...