Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

But in the grand scheme of the solar system, Earth's Moon isn't as big as you might think. Oberon is Uranus’s second-largest moon, and like most of its neighbors, it’s a cold, cratered chunk ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object ... planets like Saturn and Uranus — individually orbit their host planet but are not considered moons, Gladman said.

The seventh planet from the sun was first discovered on 13 March 1781 by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer.

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...