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

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

"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," ...