Uranus has not always had this name. While the planets current name might trigger a bit of laughter, its initial name ...

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

Uranus has a new moon. This planet, which orbits our sun beyond Saturn, is a bit of a mystery, since not much is known about it, despite getting a flyby by Voyager 2 back in 1986. We do know it has ...

On Oct. 29, the messenger planet will oppose change-maker Uranus, triggering a radical perspective shift The truth hits different when it comes out of the blue. On Oct. 29, upon entering the ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

William Lassell, an amateur astronomer, discovered Neptune's moon Triton on October 10, 1846, using his self-constructed 20-foot reflector telescope, a mere 17 days after Neptune's initial ...

The omics era is in large part defined by a shift from the old target-of-interest days to an unbiased, discovery-first mindset: from a few genes to the whole genome, from a couple of proteins to the ...

This artistic photo compilation compares the size of Planet Nine (right) to Earth (left). Dr. Konstantin Batygin, professor of Planetary Science at Caltech, made a joke that turned out to be true. In ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...