Bundle up and blast off to the far reaches of our Solar System for Ice Giant Night at the historic Cincinnati Observatory.

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

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 ...

Uranus is the only planet that rotates sideways with a 98-degree tilt. Learn why Uranus spins this way, how its seasons last ...

A team of astrophysicists at the American research center Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), led by Moroccan scientist Maryame El Moutamid, recently discovered a previously unknown small celestial ...

Here on Earth, we are used to having just one moon orbiting around us, but it is well known that other planets have a lot more. Up until recently, the planet Uranus was thought to have 29 moons, but ...

After weeks of rumors it might get shut down, Hanford’s decades-in-the-making radioactive waste treatment plant is officially moving forward. The “Direct-Feed Low Activity Waste” facility is now less ...

Today, Uranus retrogrades into Taurus, bringing relationships, social circles and intimacy into focus. Listen to signals of ...