Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

The spacecraft had measured a surprisingly strong electron radiation belt during a flyby of Uranus, which had remained a ...

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though you'll still need a telescope if you hope to spot the elusive planet hiding ...

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 ...

During its 1986 observation of the planet in the first and only flyby, the spacecraft measured a surprisingly strong electron ...

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 ...

The article, featuring Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher, encourages evening observation of Uranus, the solar system's seventh planet. Uranus was historically discovered in 1781 by ...

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 ...