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

Four decades years after their discovery, the 13 mysterious rings around Uranus surprised astronomers again this summer. In June, new images captured their warm glow for the first time.

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For instance, in 1977, astronomers found rings around Uranus using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Uranus became the second-ringed planet in our solar system. It has 13 rings and 28 moons that ...

However, the researchers believe that the Sun isn’t the only source of energy, and it’s possible that the rings around Uranus are helping to produce X-rays of their own. In a paper published ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miranda, the deformed and most undersized of Uranus' large moons, features a patchwork of ridges, valleys, and great cliffs. Scientists consider its mixed-up surface to be the product of intense ...

Using a 36-inch telescope mounted in a NASA aircraft flying 41,000 feet above the Indian Ocean, Cornell University researchers unexpectedly discover five thin rings circling the planet Uranus on ...

However, unlike Saturn, Uranus and its rings are 'tilted' almost completely sideways, like a spinning top that has fallen over. This means that as the planet orbits the Sun, each of its poles ...