From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think ...

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.

Image ARC-1986-AC86-7017: P29501C showcases a moon captured during Voyager 2's flyby of Uranus.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Uranus, which will help inform future direct imaging of exoplanets.

The views of Uranus, the coldest world in the solar system, captured by the two instruments are vastly different and are taken from different perspectives. Hubble studied the ice giant in high ...

To counteract this problem, the astronomers took long exposure images and stacked them together to create images where background objects, such as stars and galaxies, became blurred.

(Nanowerk News) Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green – but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in colour than typically thought. The ...

The corrected images show that Neptune and Uranus have a similar greenish-blue hue. Both planets have atmospheric haze, but Neptune appears slightly bluer because it has a thinner haze layer.

New images have revealed Neptune and Uranus look more like each other than was previously thought. Many people will think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green.

New images have revealed Neptune and Uranus look more like each other than was previously thought. Many people will think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green. However, ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Often appearing in images to have starkly different hues, the true colors of Neptune and Uranus may be more similar than previously thought, new research has found.

Uranus appeared to be a pale cyan color, while Neptune was depicted as a striking deep blue. Voyager 2 captured images of each planet in separate colors, and the single-color images were combined ...