Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and unlike any other planet you ...

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On Uranus, methane under extreme pressure turns into diamond rain amid 900 km/h winds. Surviving this storm would be ...

Imagine a place where it rains diamonds; not water, not snow, actual diamonds falling from the sky! It sounds like a fantasy story, but scientists believe this happens on planets like Neptune and ...

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 ...

This quiz will challenge your knowledge of Uranus's strange rotation, chilly atmosphere, and curious collection of moons.