On January 20, 2026, Saturn and Uranus make a sextile—a positive 60° angle between planets that encourages teamwork between two very different energies. Saturn is all about structure, maturity, ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

Uranus, often referred to as the planet of cosmic rebellion, challenges traditional norms to forge new pathways. As a generational planet, it moves more slowly than the personal planets, taking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...

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 your jokes. “I’ve heard them all. I know them all,” says Heidi Hammel, a ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts around Uranus. In 1986, when Voyager 2 made the first and only flyby of ...

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Uranus’s tiny moon Ariel may have had a subsurface ocean that made up around 55% of its total volume. By mapping craters, crags, and ridges on the moon’s surface, planetary scientists modeled how ...