Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a colossal storm that has raged for centuries, is revealing new secrets about its dynamic nature. Recent observations using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

The Hubble team observed Uranus four times in the 20-year period: in 2002, 2012, 2015, and 2022. They found that unlike conditions on the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter, methane is not uniformly ...

Hubble’s 20-year study of Uranus reveals dramatic atmospheric shifts, from methane mysteries to polar brightening, reshaping ...

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