Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer is the fastest in the world, capable of a quintillion calculations per ...

Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at times been visible further south than usual over Britain, ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

During November, Uranus will be in opposition, allowing folks to view the blue planet easier than they normally would.

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Mysteries about Uranus which have puzzled scientists for decades may have been the result of unexpected data collected during an unusually powerful solar storm, research suggests. In 1986, Nasa’s ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our ...

Scientists think they have got Uranus all wrong. Astronomers have been studying it long and hard, and suggest what they have believed for the last 40 years might not be true. The ringed world ...