Tags: Uranus

Scientists Detect X-Rays From Uranus

Many objects in space emit X-rays, including black holes, neutron stars, a special class of binary stars known as X-ray binaries, exploding stars called supernovae and their remnants, and our...

Something big crashed into Uranus and changed it forever

This composite image, created in 2004 with Keck Observatory telescope adaptive optics, shows Uranus’ two hemispheres. Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory It turns out that Uranus is...

Uranus: The Planet on a Very Tilted Axis

It’s funny. There are eight planets in this solar system and Neptune is the farthest from the sun. Yet it still releases more heat than Uranus, planet No. 7. Four...

Scientists Confirm Uranus Stinks

Voyager 2 snapped this photo of the seventh planet from the sun back in 1986. Much of what we know about the planet has come from ground-based observations. NASA/JPL-CALTECH Uranus...