Astronomer William Herschel was looking up at the night sky on March 13, 1781, from his garden in England when he stumbled upon the seventh planet from the sun and the last to be discovered in our ...

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 ...

Look up at the sky tomorrow night, Sunday, October 11, and you’ll be able to see Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun. At a basic level, Uranus will be visible for the same reason that we had a ...

The International Astronomical Union has confirmed the existence of three currently unnamed moons — one around Uranus and two orbiting Neptune. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — Stargazers have a chance to ...

The discovery brings the total number of known Uranian moons to 29. Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...