Where is Uranus tonight?

Uranus in 3D

Uranus lit by the Sun at this moment and seen from Earth’s direction, so its phase matches what a telescope shows. Drag to turn it. The time slider moves the light and the rotation.

Where to find Uranus among the stars

Two finder charts for today: a wide field to find the right part of the sky and a closer field with fainter stars. North is up and east on the left, as the sky looks to the naked eye. The dotted line marks its path over the coming weeks, one dot per week.

Stars: HYG Database. Constellation figures: Stellarium. Deep-sky objects: OpenNGC (Messier objects marked M).

Visibility over the next 12 months

Angle between Uranus and the Sun on the 15th of each month. The further from the Sun, the darker the sky around it. Colour shows whether it is in the evening or the morning sky.

Ephemeris for the next 15 days

Position at 0:00 UTC each day as seen from the centre of the Earth (apparent coordinates of date), calculated with Astronomy Engine.

Distance from Earth

Distance from Earth over the past and the coming year. The closest approach in this period: November 26, 2026, 2,759 million km.

Brightness

Visual magnitude over the same two years. Higher on the chart is brighter.

Coming up

• Nov 25, 2026Uranus at opposition
• Nov 30, 2027Uranus at opposition

Facts

Moon count: NASA, page updated August 202

Source: NASA planetary fact sheet (Oct 12, 2026). Calculated with Astronomy Engine, an open-source library verified against the US Naval Observatory and NASA JPL. Data sources

Gravity compared: Uranus and Earth

Drop, jump and throw side by side: Uranus on one side, Earth or any other world on the other. Pick a world to compare, or open the full tool. Open the gravity tool

Latest NASA images of Uranus

The newest images about it in NASA’s Photojournal, updated daily. Open one for NASA’s full caption and the original file.

NASA news about Uranus

• Feb 25, 2026Listen to This Month’s ‘Planetary Parade’ With NASA’s Chandra
• Apr 22, 2025Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
• Apr 10, 2025Have We Been to Uranus? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 56
• Nov 11, 2024Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries

Headlines from NASA’s news feeds (in English), updated daily. Last checked October 13, 2026.

Discoveries and exploration

Key moments in the study of Uranus, each linked to its source.

1. March 13, 1781William Herschel discovers Uranus, the first new planet found since ancient times. Source
2. 1787William Herschel discovers the moons Titania and Oberon. Source
3. 1851William Lassell discovers the moons Ariel and Umbriel. Source
4. 1948Gerard Kuiper discovers the moon Miranda. Source
5. March 10, 1977Observations of Uranus passing in front of a star reveal that the planet has rings. Source
6. January 24, 1986Voyager 2 makes the only spacecraft visit to Uranus, finding 10 new moons and two new rings. Source
7. December 22, 2005NASA announces a new pair of rings and two small moons, Mab and Cupid, found with Hubble. Source
8. December 2007Uranus reaches equinox, with the Sun passing over its equator and the rings seen edge-on. Source
9. April 19, 2022The 2023-2032 Planetary Science Decadal Survey names a Uranus mission among its highest priorities. Source
10. October 2024Hubble and New Horizons observe Uranus at the same time from two very different viewpoints. Source
11. August 19, 2025NASA announces moon S/2025 U1, found in Webb images from Feb. 2, 2025, bringing Uranus's known moons to 29. Source · Recent NASA photos

Checked against the linked NASA, ESA and NOAA pages on October 10, 2026.

How to use this page

Choose your place and a night at the top: tonight by default, or one of the dates under it. The tiles show when Uranus rises, is highest and sets, and the numbers that matter for that night. Below them you find where it is right now, the sky in 3D with Uranus marked, finder charts, the year ahead and the facts.

What the numbers mean

Rises and sets

When the top edge of the disc meets a flat horizon, with the bending of light by the air included, as in almanacs. A time on another day carries its date.

Highest

When it crosses the meridian, due south or due north, and its height above the horizon then.

Direction and height

The compass point and azimuth to face, counted from north through east, and the angle above the horizon. A fist at arm’s length covers about 10°.

Distance and apparent size

How far away it is from Earth’s centre at that moment and how wide it looks in the sky, in arcminutes (′) or arcseconds (″).

Magnitude

Brightness: the smaller the number, the brighter. About 6 is the faintest the eye sees under a dark sky.

How accurate it is

Positions and times come from Astronomy Engine. In our tests positions agree with NASA JPL’s Horizons to within one arcminute, and rise and set times of the Sun and the Moon to within two minutes. Times assume a flat horizon at your place, so hills and buildings change when you actually see it rise or set. Methodology

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