The Latest Breaking News from Uranus

The new moon, still nameless, ups the planet's total moon count to 29.

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun.

The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus

The moon will drift towards the Pleiades and Uranus in the early hours of Aug. 16-17.

Six of Earth's neighboring planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will briefly appear in the sky on the same night, starting Sunday (Aug. 17).

Keep your eyes on the skies!

You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: “Chiron is in retrograde.” If you’re anything like me, you’ve never heard of Chiron before – and I’m a professional astronomer.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labelled as planet X, prominent astronomers had put it forward as an explanation for Uranus’s orbit, which drifts from the path of…

Scientists have found that Uranus emits its own internal heat, contradicting data from NASA's Voyager 2 probe nearly four decades ago.

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Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time finding it.