Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you’ve never seen the seventh planet, Uranus, here comes ...

Most planets spin like tops around the sun. But one planet in the solar system breaks all the rules. Uranus is the weirdest world in our solar system. It rolls around the sun like a giant blue barrel.

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 ...

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 ...