New findings reveal a solar composition richer in carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen than previously thought, potentially ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

When did Pluto become a planet? When Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, scientists were searching far and wide ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

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

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy atmosphere of the largest planet in the Solar System on its ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

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

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...