A zoomed-in image of Uranus captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Eleven of the planet's 13 rings are visible, though some are so bright they appear to blend into one ring. NASA, ESA, CSA ...

The images of Uranus were taken by NASA's high-powered James Webb Space Telescope and captured the icy planet along with its multiple inner and outer rings, many moons and a seasonal polar cap.

In a sequel to its image of the planet Neptune’s rings in September 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a new image of the ice giant Uranus.The new view of the seventh planet ...

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A comparison between the Gas Planets Uranus and Neptune on a starry background. Image source: Tristan3D / Adobe This reasoning, they say, is plausible for several reasons and isn’t the only ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant. According to the research, which assessed Hubble images taken between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns ...

Space.com caught up with Hofstadter to discuss what exploration of Uranus — that far-flung, ice giant of a world with a mass roughly 14.5 times that of Earth — can offer. The planet has been ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ...

The complicated magnetic environment of 'weird' Uranus. The four moons in this study—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—are tidally locked to Uranus, so that they always show the same side to ...