On February 4, Uranus finally stations direct in Taurus after months of retrograde motion. And we’re destined to feel it intensely. Uranus is one of those planets that doesn’t do subtle very well.

"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," ...

Now, when a planet stations retrograde, its energy becomes denser and more potent. For Uranus, the great disruptor, going ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February. Six planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time for a couple ...

"Every component of that system has features that violate some of our ideas about how planets work." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Two steps forward and one step back is still progress! At 9:33 pm EST, the cosmic rebel Uranus ends its retrograde and moves ...