NASA used a rare alignment to study Uranus' atmosphere like never before. A major mission with orbiter and probe is now set ...

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his ...

In April 2025, a rare stellar occultation provided NASA scientists a unique opportunity to study Uranus' atmosphere, offering ...

According to NASA, the aurora on Earth may last only a few minutes, but on Saturn, it can last for days. In the 2010s, aurora ...

(AP) — A day at Uranus just got a little longer ... the findings come a few weeks before the 35th anniversary of Hubble's launch. NASA's space shuttle Discovery delivered the space telescope to orbit ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

A rare one-hour occultation in April 2025 let NASA and global scientists uncover new secrets about Uranus’ atmosphere, rings, and weather using infrared tech.

(CNN) – An international team of astronauts has discovered new measurements of how long a day is on Uranus. The team used the Hubble Space Telescope to track the planet’s rotation period.