When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term girlfriend.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting the ...

Uranus and Neptune are the outermost planets of the solar system. In size, possibly bulk composition, and their large distance from the Sun they are similar and clearly segregated from […] ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Uranus and Neptune are the only planets (sorry, Pluto) in the solar system to be discovered since the invention of the telescope (for hints of a new planet, see SN: 2/20/16, p. 6); the others have ...

As for the Neptune storm, it's a whopping 6,800 miles across, more than twice the size of the United States. Seasons on Neptune last for over 40 years, and it's now winter in its northern hemisphere.

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this study to ...

Because Neptune has a more active, turbulent atmosphere than Uranus does, the team believes Neptune’s atmosphere is more efficient at churning up methane particles into the haze layer and ...

Because Uranus and Neptune are nearly 2 billion miles away from Earth, it is challenging to learn the ins and outs of these two giant planets. And, unlike Mars, ...

This image of the planet Uranus was taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Previously, scientists had suggested it was the methane of Neptune that makes that ...

A 1986 image of Uranus and a 1989 image of Neptune released shortly after each Voyager 2 flyby, compared with the study’s reprocessed images of the planets that better approximate their true colors.