NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first vertical map of Uranus’s ionosphere, giving scientists a ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday, adding that the moon was first spotted on Feb. 2. Scientists estimate ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from the ...

Starship’s heavy lift capacity, in orbit refueling, and potential aerobraking role could significantly accelerate a long-awaited mission to Uranus.

Six planets will be parading through the sky at the end of the month, and you won’t have to stay up late into the night to ...

Everything you thought was solid is shifting, and there’s no turning back! On Feb. 3, Uranus will finally station direct in Taurus, after a retrograde journey that began in September last year. This ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 13Look north this evening a couple hours after sunset and you'll easily spot the large shape of the Big Dipper as it sits ...