The James Webb Space Telescope spends much of its time peering out into distant regions of space searching for some of the earliest galaxies to exist, but it also occasionally turns its sights onto ...

This video explores how long it really takes to reach the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto by tracing past missions, their routes, and the engineering trade-offs between speed, fuel, ...

Uranus is surrounded by a system of faint rings, but they are not easily spotted. Before today, only the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the planet in 1986 and the Keck Observatory have been ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

This quiz will challenge your knowledge of Uranus's strange rotation, chilly atmosphere, and curious collection of moons.

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With all the fanfare around the Webb Space Telescope, it’s easy to forget about the tireless work of Hubble, its predecessor. The 30-year-old orbiting observatory has taken new images of Jupiter and ...

A visualization of a recently discovered aurora on Uranus. Illustration: NASA, ESA and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) for the background image of Uranus Feast your eyes on Uranus’ glowing edges. We’re ...

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on January 24, ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...