Uranus may seem like a desolate ice giant, but it’s full of surprises! Learn about its peculiar orbit, captivating appearance, and unique place in our solar system. A must-watch for space ...

Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don't appear as 'bright planets'," NASA's Preston Dyches explained in a stargazing video guide. Stock illustration of all the solar system's ...

Researchers use the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a small object on the outer edge of the Solar System. Nicknamed ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its way to outer regions of the solar system in the late 80's, it noticed something odd. Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be nine if some astronomers are correct about an as-yet undiscovered large body out past Neptune.