Uranus has been the butt of a lot of jokes (stop giggling). And it doesn't help that it's huge — roughly four times the size of Earth — or gassy with an atmosphere comprised partly of methane. Or, as ...

Space smells bad. According to a post shared by Space.com, astronauts have reported that space leaves a funky smell on their space suits. Further, the chemical makeup detected on Uranus shows that the ...

University of Oxford researchers have discovered that Uranus smells bad. (We’ll pause a second to let you have a laugh. Go ahead. You know you want to.) According to an article in USA Today, ...

Uranus and Neptune are not the colour we tend to think they are, scientist have said. Generally, Neptune is depicted as a rich, deep blue. Uranus is usually seen as a pale green or cyan. In fact, ...

Poor Uranus never gets any attention, and a new report from the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) says it's time that changed. In the group's new report, a Uranus probe is listed as the top ...

A new decadal survey outlines planetary defense and science goals through 2032. Top of the list: sending spacecraft to Uranus. Reading time 2 minutes A new report covering the next 10 years of ...

WASHINGTON >> Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.