You need binoculars to see Uranus. Point the binoculars toward the Pleiades and put them in the upper-left corner of your ...

On November 21, Uranus will appear the brightest this year, as it enters apposition, or opposition. The term "opposition" in ...

On November 5, 2025, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a remarkable image of the planet Uranus, marking an important ...

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

Uranus appears as a tiny aqua dot against the blackness of space in a region of the sky less than five degrees to the lower ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voyager 1 was launched into space in 1977 and has been on a one-way journey ever since, pushing the boundaries of how far a machine built by ...