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

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.

Farewell shot of crescent Uranus as Voyager 2 departs, as depicted by Voyager 2 spacecraft. Credit: TIME LIFE PICTURES/NASA/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES Uranus has always been a bit of ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

On April 7, Uranus passed in front of a distant star located 400 light-years away, giving NASA scientists a rare cosmic alignment in which to investigate the distant ice giant. During the hour ...

The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation." This rare event ...

Uranus isn’t the most popular place in the Solar System. It’s a cold, harsh world, and it hasn’t been studied nearly as much as some of our other planetary neighbors like Jupiter ...

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Planetary scientists call it a stellar occultation and that's exactly what happened with Uranus on April 7. Observing the alignment allows NASA scientists to measure the temperatures and ...

Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus — an event known as a planetary stellar occultation. | Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory NASA ...