NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

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

“Its subsurface ocean is likely to be relatively deep (~100 km/62 miles) compared to ... professor of earth and planetary science speculates that the surface of Uranus is layered and, like ...

Neptune and Uranus are the seventh and eighth planets from the sun, and as such share a lot of the same characteristics. Though they are different colors (Neptune is bluer than Uranus' cyan hue ...

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

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...

Uranus is another matter entirely. About 63 times the size of Earth, the planet is only slightly ... "With this new longitude system, we can now compare auroral observations spanning nearly ...

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Uranus up-close. Using radio ...

Like the auroras that can be found here on Earth ... we can now compare auroral observations spanning nearly 40 years and even plan for the upcoming Uranus mission.” The mission he’s referring ...

The reason this worked so well is thanks to Hubble’s consistent, long-term observations. Over more than a decade, the space ...

2024 — When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are ...

That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun.