A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
"This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...
Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...
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.
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.