New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white.

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first vertical map of Uranus’s ionosphere, giving scientists a ...

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Before Herschel discovered Uranus, other astronomers had ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

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

Six planets will be parading through the sky at the end of the month, and you won’t have to stay up late into the night to ...