Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

Research on Ryugu samples indicates a faint magnetic field within 3 million years of solar system formation, impacting ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower is expected to peak Monday night into Tuesday. Here’s what to look for and how to see it.

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Scientists have discovered that Uranus and its moons may not be the lifeless worlds previously thought after new research ...