In Roman mythology, Saturn is the father of Jupiter, so the new planet used the Greek name for Saturn's father - Uranus. When another new planet was announced almost 100 years later, it was named ...

Second, Saturn is the father of Jupiter in mythology, and Uranus’s Roman counterpart (Caelus) is the father of Saturn, making a neat hierarchy in the order of the planets. The element uranium ...

The planet Uranus is named for an ancient Greek sky god, whose name is also – much less entertainingly – spelled Ouranos. If astronomers in the late 1800s had stuck with Roman names, we’d ...

The first six planets in the solar system have been visible to observers throughout human history and were named for Roman gods. But because it orbits so far from the sun, Uranus was not visible ...

In Greek mythology, it is Ouranos, who has no precise equivalent in Roman mythology (Caelus is close), though his name was on occasion Latinized by poets as—you guessed it!—Uranus.

Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event; ... It is the only planet to be named after a Greek god rather than a Roman one.

"Uranus is currently deep into its summer season, and that shows in the giant, ... Neptune is named for the god of the sea, in Roman mythology. It's unclear how these storms form, NASA said.

Uranus, the name that eventually stuck, was first suggested by Johann Bode. He argued that planets should follow the tradition of Roman gods, and in Roman mythology, Uranus is the father of Saturn ...