when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," have been animated to show seasonal changes, according to the University of Oxford. Credit: University of Oxford / Patrick Irwin ...

However, during the equinoxes–when the sun is over the planet’s equator–it appears to have a more blue tinge. Animation of seasonal changes in color on Uranus during two Uranus years ...

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The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly.

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Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our understanding of the planet — garnered mostly from a flyby by a NASA spacecra ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached ...