We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

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

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Our solar system used to have nine planets ... “In terms of scientific viability, we know that there are eight planets already, so it’s not so crazy to have another planet within the same ...

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

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

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Scientists have known that a magnetic field shaped the inner solar system, where Earth and the terrestrial planets were formed. But it was unclear whether such a magnetic influence extended into ...

It is big enough to fit 63 Earths inside it. Among the solar system's eight planets, only Jupiter and Saturn are larger. Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the sun like a rolling ball.

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

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