The ground is snapping and popping. Ever hear this? On quiet evenings in the country in mid-spring, you can walk up to a roadside ditch along the edge of the forest and listen to green plants pushing ...

It’s been 30 days since Uranus first appeared in the sky. At first, it looked like our Moon had found itself a stellar partner. But then, we understood something much, much bigger was headed our way.

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...

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 ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons missions have observed Uranus, providing different views from across the solar system, to help the study of exoplanets. Two of NASA'’s most famous ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached opposition on ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached opposition on ...