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

Neptune and Uranus might be home to some incredibly deep oceans that make our own look ... at the surface of Earth. That means that the "oceans" on these planets would behave more like a ...

It helps build on the story that some of these moons at Uranus may be really ... what the moon's interior could look like. Firstly, the team mapped the moon's surface features, including its ...

Some of the brighter features look like clouds ... diamonds to fall. Uranus displays a uniform temperature during solstice, but severe temperature differences across its surface during equinoxes ...

In April 2025, a rare stellar occultation provided NASA scientists a unique opportunity to study Uranus' atmosphere, offering ...

But this featureless marble doesn’t represent Uranus’ true face, which is swept with intricate cloudy bands, much like Jupiter and Saturn. Because Uranus is so far away, most telescopes can ...

So what would it be like to go there ... If we could visit Uranus, the winds at a depth equivalent to the atmospheric pressure of Earth’s surface could reach up to 250 metres per second ...

Like the other gas giants, Uranus lacks a solid, well-defined surface. Instead ... stuff is going up and down in a periodic fashion that looks kind of like a wave, with crests and troughs ...

It's actually pretty similar in color to its fellow ice giant Uranus, also visited by Voyager 2. "We find that the planets are different colors, but the difference in color was nothing like what ...