John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

The seventh planet in the solar system has an average temperature of just -195°C, unsurprising given it’s 1.8billion miles ...

Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune each emit more energy than they receive from the Sun, meaning they have comparatively warm ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Uranus, becoming the first,and so far, only probe to closely study ...

A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun.

Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a ...

A study from University of Houston researchers showed Uranus's energy levels change with its long seasons, which last about 20 years. This is likely ...

Back to Article List July 2, 1967: The discovery of GRBs Today in the history of astronomy, satellites Vela 3 and 4 make the first detection of gamma-ray bursts.

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus ...