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 ...

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Four decades years after their discovery, the 13 mysterious rings around Uranus surprised astronomers again this summer. In June, new images captured their warm glow for the first time.

Read Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus - an event known as a ...

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. An analysis of 11 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows that Uranus' day lasts 17 hours, ...

Uranus' moons and rings are also orientated this way, suggesting they formed during a cataclysmic impact which tipped it over early in its history.

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

Discovered in 1977, the rings were only the second such system to be found after Saturn's. However, unlike Saturn, Uranus and its rings are 'tilted' almost completely sideways, like a spinning top ...

Dec. 19, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings ...