"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," ...

Using the joint U.S.-Taiwanese COSMIC-2 satellite network, as well as 37 ground-based radars called ionosodes, the team ...

Sun conjunction and the Sun’s shift to Gemini bring a tense, energetic, and talkative start to the week, lasting through ...

O ur planet is a water world. Around 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered by sea – and this view of the world really hits ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

On Earth, the charged particles emitted by the sun create impressive light shows in the sky. But there are also auroras on our neighboring planet. The Mars rover Perseverance has observed them, ...

If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.

As May unfurls across northern Arizona, the symphony of spring grows richer each day. The ponderosa forest awakens with the ...

The US space agency took advantage of a rare cosmic event to get a glimpse inside the distant ice giant and you will not ...

NASA's Perseverance rover recently took the first ever photos of the aurora borealis on Mars from the surface of the planet.

A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.