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The moon will appear to hop over Uranus in the predawn sky as it continues its planetary tour. The event will occur between Friday (June 24) and Saturday (June 25).

The brilliant planet Venus will shine near Uranus before sunrise early Sunday (June 12). Here's how to see them.

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The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.

Congress should embrace a proposed $4 billion-plus project for the discoveries it will make possible and to inspire a new generation of world-leading space scientists.

A key committee of scientists has recommended that a flagship mission to Uranus should be NASA's highest-priority large planetary science mission for the next decade; here's what such a mission might look like.

You know, the seventh planet from the sun? It could use some attention.

NASA should send probes to the ice giant planet of Uranus and to a moon of Saturn where conditions could be right for life. Those are some of the recommendations in a new report to the space agency.

Every 10 years, NASA asks scientists to evaluate the state of planetary science and offer guidance about which questions are top priorities for the community as a whole in a process dubbed a decadal survey, and the newest such report is now public.

JAY-Z and Kanye West are neck and neck with Grammy wins. This year's show could see the hip-hop throne being overtaken.

The temperature of Uranus averages minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit. Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the solar system.

The solar system's outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are mainly giant balls of gas much larger than Earth.

Hiding beneath the outer layers of some planets, there may be something spectacular: a constant rain of diamonds.

The heat inside planets is left over from when they were formed.

Space has been putting a display in the southern evening sky with several bright planets visible.

The distant planet is about to reach opposition, and with the right equipment you'll be able to spot it.

The full Hunter's Moon will light the way to Uranus in the early morning sky this week, and with some luck you could see a "shooting star" while looking for the celestial pair.

Scientists have imaged the whole globe of Uranus in the infrared part of the light spectrum for the first time, hoping to shed light on the planet's mysterious auroras and weird magnetic field.

Sunday would’ve been the day of Chicago’s Pride Parade, which was canceled for the second year in a row due to COVID-19 concerns. But Chicago’s Pride Fest in Northalsted did return throughout the weekend Oct. 1 to Oct. 3.

An Illinois State trooper was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 43rd Street.

A recent discovery of giant ammonia-rich hailstones, dubbed mushballs, on Jupiter might explain why Uranus and Neptune seem to have no ammonia in their atmospheres.

Each spring and fall Chicago's numerous bascule bridges are raised to allow sailboats to traverse the Chicago River to and from Lake Michigan.

Eight people were displaced and multiple dogs required oxygen when seven occupied homes burned in a “suspicious” fire early Thursday in the Fuller Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

A shootout between two vehicles injured four innocent bystanders in the Fulton River District of Chicago.

The northwest suburb of Arlington Heights, longtime home to Arlington Park horse racing, is in line to become home to the Chicago Bears football team.

El Milagro production workers and supporters rally outside an El Milagro store in Little Village during a temporary walk-out to protest working conditions on Sept. 23 2021, in Chicago.

DePaul University has a new speech and language clinic on its Lincoln Park campus as part of its Speech Language Pathology Program

Two 15-year-old boys, Jamari Williams and Kentrell McNeal, were fatally shot in separate attacks Tuesday and a third boy, 14, also was critically wounded, according to Chicago police.

Chicago police and experts have said thefts from gun shops in neighboring states — along with straw purchases — are a major source of the illegal guns that feed the city’s violence problem.

Every day confiscated firearms are dropped off at the Chicago Police Department’s firearms laboratory for processing.

In little over a month after being stolen from a gun shop in Superior, Wisconsin, the Glock 17 9mm was in Chicago and was fired over and over, linked to some 27 shootings before it was taken off the streets.

Chicago police were called to the 6500 block of South Harvard Avenue in Englewood for a report of a “domestic disturbance,” according to a statement from police. There they came across a man allegedly armed with a knife and an officer drew his weapon and fatally shot “a 28-year-old male who was later pronounced deceased,” it said.

Watch Guard is a community patrol group in Bronzeville that is taking control of the keeping their area safe for young and old.

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Beecher was destroyed Sunday by a fire that broke out during the congregation’s annual Oktoberfest celebration in the parking lot. The church was founded in 1865.

Twenty years ago, nearly 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers took control of four large passenger jets, flying two into the Twin Towers buildings in Manhattan and a third into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field when passengers prevented it from reaching it's destination in Washington, D.C.

Memorial services take place at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., New York City and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Twenty years after the worst attack on American soil, the loss of nearly 3,000 people was remembered in events across the country.

Catholic nuns from various countries in Latin America visiting in Chicago gathered at the site where Chicago police Officer Ella French was murdered for a prayer service, Sept. 3, 2021. The purpose of the service was to mark the site as a place of prayer, not violence, and to pray for all first responders. The sisters have been at Loyola University this week partaking in classes centered on restorative justice.

It's been 30 years since NASA last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new missions have been selected to explore the deadly atmosphere, crushing pressures and volcanic landscape.

The nine babies born to a Malian woman on May 4 are doing well but need to remain under observation for up to two more months, the Moroccan clinic where she delivered said Wednesday.

Hailey Morinico didn't hesitate when she saw a large bear facing off with her family dogs from the top of a wall in their Southern California backyard. The 17-year-old ran outside and shoved the bear away, then rounded up the dogs and went back inside her house in suburban Bradbury, east of Los Angeles. Two bear cubs are seen behind the bear while four smaller dogs bark and dart around the yard.

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The new moon occurs Sunday, April 11, at 10:30 p.m. EDT (0230 GMT on April 12), a week before our natural satellite passes in front of Mars.

Scientists have discovered another mystery at Uranus, which may be emitting X-rays.

Related: Voyager at 40: 40 Photos from NASA's epic 'grand tour' missionIce, ice babyPoor Uranus and Neptune. On Earth, physicists reflect laser beams along miles-long tracks to measure passing gravitational waves . For radio communications from a distant space mission back to Earth, the effect is similar. In other words, these far-flung space probes could do double-duty as the largest gravitational wave observatories in the world. These are events that we simply have not observed, and cannot observe, with current gravitational wave detectors.

The full moon of March, called the Worm Moon, will occur on Sunday (March 28), at 2:48 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT). The near-full moon will also share the sky with a planetary conjunction, but only for Southern Hemisphere skywatchers. Learn what makes a big full moon a true "supermoon" in this Space.com infographic. When the full moon coincides with perigee it is sometimes called a "supermoon" — but in this case the full moon will miss perigee by about 35 hours. Whether a full moon counts as "super" depends on how close to the full moon the user of the word thinks perigee should be.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe spotted six different planets on June 7, 2020, with the sun out of frame to the left. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher)Turns out sungazing is not the only thing NASA's solar spacecraft do. Three missions that focus on the activities of our nearest star — Parker Solar Probe , the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory ( STEREO ) and Solar Orbiter (a partnership with the European Space Agency) — have captured some incredible images showing several worlds in our solar system. Parker Solar ProbeOur #ParkerSolarProbe spacecraft saw six of the planets on June 7, 2020, as it wheeled around the Sun during its fifth close solar flyby. From left to right appear Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Saturn and Jupiter.

Uranus and Mars will be visible close together in the night sky tonight, January 21, 2021. (Image credit: SkySafari appLook up tonight (Jan. 21) to see Uranus and Mars nestled together in the night sky — just don't forget your binoculars. Yesterday (Jan. 20) on Inauguration Day in the U.S., the two planets were in conjunction, meaning they appeared very close together in the sky. Tonight, the planets will share the same "right ascension," with Mars passing just 1.75 degrees to the north of Uranus, according to Earthsky.org . Now, while Uranus and Mars will be putting on this show in the night sky, they won't be the only planets hanging out tonight.

When will we be able to see the planets at their best during this upcoming year of 2021? Related: The 10 Must-See Skywatching Events of 2021MercuryNASAAs an evening star, Mercury appears in the western sky setting about an hour after the sun. As a morning star, it appears in the eastern sky rising about an hour before the sun. Mercury will be brightest and easiest to spot in the evening sky between May 3 and May 24; brightest and easiest to spot in the morning sky between October 18 and Nov. 1. Venus will attain its greatest brilliancy in the evening sky on Dec. 5; an eye-popping magnitude of -4.7.

The moons of Uranus could be sloshing with oceans hiding just below the surface. Now, researchers have turned their gaze to the moons orbiting Uranus, searching for secret oceans. This tug from the magnetic field generates an electrical current that can create its own magnetic field, called an induced magnetic field. An induced magnetic field on one of these moons would look very different from Uranus' magnetic field to an instrument on a nearby spacecraft, making them observable from nearby. In 1998, scientists used this same technique to confirm Europa's subsurface ocean and the ocean inside another of Jupiter's moons, Callisto.

ORLANDO, Fla. If youve looked up before the sun has broken the horizon, youve likely seen the show space has been putting on for us. Jupiter and Saturn have been hanging out close together before midnight and the Mars joins the party in the wee hours of the morning. All three planets are visible in the southern/southeast sky until the sun comes up. But wait theres moreJust before sunrise Venus peeks above the horizon and becomes the 4th visible planet the morning sky. Venus will become more visible in the morning with grouping of planets later in June and especially July as the sunrise becomes later.

Uranus is uniquely tipped over among the planets in our solar system. Uranus' moons and rings are also orientated this way, suggesting they formed during a cataclysmic impact which tipped it over early in its history. Astronomers think this unique configuration is evidence of a violent collision Uranus suffered shortly after it was born, which also apparently supercharged the planet's rotation. Details of that collision have remained elusive, however, because simulations have struggled to generate the Uranus system that we see today. But the material liberated during the Uranus collision was much more volatile stuff like water and ammonia and remained gaseous longer.

An animation shows the strange magnetic field of Uranus. Buried inside data that NASA's iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft gathered at Uranus more than 30 years ago is the signature of a massive bubble that may have stolen a blob of the planet's gassy atmosphere. That's according to scientists who analyzed archived Voyager 2 observations of the magnetic field around Uranus. In the new research, scientists instead looked at those measurements every two seconds. Ideally, scientists would piece together more observations of Uranus' magnetic field, enough to better understand how this phenomenon has shaped the planet over time.