Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...
Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...
Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and sterile. The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long ...
On January 21, a rare celestial event will take place as six planets, namely Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...
Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new computer model developed at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics could be used to detect ...
The ringed world and its five biggest moons might not be dead and sterile, but instead could have oceans, with the moons possibly capable of supporting life. As Uranus is so far away, much of what ...
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 ...
On January 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! Oberon and Titania were the first two Uranian moons ever discovered. The finding came just six years ...