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 ...

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

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons. Composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, it lacks a solid surface.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

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 ...

Wake up early for a planet parade 🪐 Between April 24 and 25, find Venus, Saturn, and the crescent moon gathered low in the ...

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

“The atmospheres of the gas and ice giant planets [Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune] are exceptional atmospheric laboratories because they don’t have solid surfaces. This allows us to ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

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