Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts around Uranus. In 1986, when Voyager 2 made the first and only flyby of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...

We have many planets in the solar system and THIS is the song to sing along to if you want to remember them. Get your ...

Uranus is known as a planet that spins on its side, and scientists say that while this is true, it is not so much the spin itself, but how this spin affects the charged particles surrounding it. While ...

Throughout most of recorded history, humankind had known only six planets, five in the sky — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — plus Earth once it became generally accepted in the 17th century ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus. Our solar system's ice giant is famed for how it spins sideways.