NASA chiefs took advantage of an unusual cosmic event to get their first detailed glimpse inside the mysterious planet this ...

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

The telescope is currently taking follow-up pictures of the planet. Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, does not have a solid surface. Its atmosphere is primarily hydrogen and helium with ...

Most pictures of Uranus in textbooks show it as a bright blue, featureless ball. But the James Webb Space Telescope, the preeminent new observatory that senses light at invisible, infrared ...

Uranus has not had a whole lot of love from NASA and has been explored by a probe only once. Voyager 2 sent back spectacular pictures of the ice giant, resembling a perfect blue ball in space.

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The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, or 28 seconds longer than the best previous estimate made by NASA’s Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.

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 ...