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 ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 ...

Diamond rain on Uranus and Neptune: Recent research suggests that extreme pressures and temperatures deep within Uranus and Neptune create conditions where carbon atoms crystallize into diamonds ...