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

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 data collected will help researchers understand how Uranus' atmosphere functions and how it has evolved over the past 30 ...

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

This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its ...

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

We have seen magnificent images of Saturn’s rings. But did you know, it is not the only planet with a ring? All four outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — have rings. But the rings of ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

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