In this installment of Practical Magic, Lisa Stardust explains why people are talking about Uranus in Gemini 2025. Always ...

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just after sunset on Feb. 28, 2025, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

Uranus and Neptune may soon lose their reputation as the “boring” planets of the solar system. Long overshadowed by the grandeur of Jupiter and Saturn, scientists now believe that beneath ...

In the case of Uranus, the core is the size of Mercury, and Neptune’s is slightly larger, more Mars-size. Previously, scientists had thought the interiors of the two planets would be more mixed.

Sub-Neptune planets, which are about the size of Uranus and Neptune, are among the most common exoplanets observed. Militzer’s model suggests that their interiors might also have these non-mixing ...

These NASA images of Uranus (left) and Neptune were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, with models of the planets' interior structures seen in the inset.

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

Therefore, Neptune and Uranus will require a telescope or powerful binoculars to see at all. Mars and Saturn will each have a magnitude of around +1, so will both be faintly visible to the naked eye.

Scientists have been searching for a ninth planet to explain the orbital eccentricities of Uranus and Neptune (and dwarf planets like Sedna and Pluto) for more than a century. For the past decade ...

On Feb. 28, 2025, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will converge for a "great alignment" — or planetary parade — in the sky. Here's everything you need to know about ...