Tag: planetary history

  • How Uranus Almost Carried a Royal Name That History Rejected

    How Uranus Almost Carried a Royal Name That History Rejected

    Most planets in our solar system carry names that feel ancient and inevitable, like echoes from a mythic past whispered through the centuries. Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Mercury sound like they have always belonged to the sky. Yet Uranus, that cyan ice giant rolling sideways through the heavens, has a history that is strangely…