Witness a rare celestial event as the moon aligns with Uranus and other planets throughout February, visible even in ...

Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in ...

Over the last couple of years, planetary scientists have been increasingly calling for a mission to a largely unexplored region of the solar system: Uranus and its moons. Planetary scientists know ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

Such a mission would include perhaps deploying a Doppler image that makes measurements of vibrations caused by the layers inside Uranus, with the purpose of revealing their composition and behavior.

These findings cast doubt on earlier hypotheses and raise the possibility that Uranus and Neptune are home to a dynamic system of storms and atmospheric currents. Similar to Jupiter and Saturn, the ...

On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...

Californians watching the sky in February have the chance to view a parade of planets and a snow moon. The planetary alignment that began in January will continue into February, according to ...