On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his ...

"They found hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous gas that most people avoid, in Uranus's cloud tops," according to a press release from Gemini Observatory, a high-power telescope atop a Hawaiian volcano.

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

That glancing blow was enough to cause the then-young planet to begin rotating on its side rather than spinning like a top ... cloud of methane-ice. Because of the distance at which Uranus ...

Its atmosphere is the coldest of any planet in our solar system, and contains clouds of methane ... However, unlike Saturn, Uranus and its rings are 'tilted' almost completely sideways, like a ...