A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

A rare astronomical alignment on April 7, 2025, presented NASA with a unique chance to study the atmosphere and rings of ...

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

Space weather creates the Northern Lights on Earth, and more recently, aurora lights on Uranus helped NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...

Space weather creates the Northern Lights on Earth, and more recently, aurora lights on Uranus helped Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...

Nearly 40 years ago, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Uranus up-close. Using radio signals from the planet's auroras and magnetic field data collected by the spacecraft ...

If human life existed on the planet Uranus, it’s likely the same phenomenon might happen. But now we know that a single day on Uranus is 28 seconds longer than astronomers first calculated in ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, takes approximately 84 Earth years to orbit the sun. Laurent Lamy of the Paris Observatory, the lead author of the study, stated that "The continuous ...

Planetary scientists have pinpointed the rotation period of Uranus — and it’s 28 seconds longer than they thought it was 1. Like other gas-giant planets, Uranus doesn’t have a rocky surface ...

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands ... This estimate was based on radio signals emitted by the pale turquoise planet's auroras and direct magnetic field measurements.