Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Flying by in early 1986, Voyager 2 captured this picture of ...

Known as the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, the mission will most likely involve a cone-shaped probe that will dive down into Uranus’s atmosphere, coupled with a kind of satellite that will get stunning, ...

An influential panel of scientists says NASA should put exploration of Uranus at the top of its to-do list. The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) made the ...

The continuing search for life beyond Earth is driving many of the priorities for what’s next when it comes to U.S. planetary exploration. In a new report that could shape the next 10 years of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows ...

In recent decades, NASA has sent large spacecraft—Galileo and Cassini, respectively—to fly around Jupiter and Saturn to explore the dozens of moons that exist in those planetary systems. The ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have ...

Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green -- but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought. The correct shades of ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...