Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

Welcome to January 2025. Mars is still retrograde for all of this month, which can lead to slowdowns in professional news, and perhaps affect sex drives. However, during the first weekend of the month ...

New images of Uranus and Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal how weather slowly changes on these giant, distant planets. Hubble images of the ice giant Uranus taken in 2014 and 2022, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – With an 84-year orbit around the sun, it isn’t often that planetary scientists have an opportunity to observe the change of seasons on Uranus, a planet some 19 times farther from the ...

Our planet isn’t the only place in the solar system with dramatic weather changes. Other planets in the solar system also experience seasons, depending on their distance from the sun, and that affects ...

Most planets spin like tops around the sun. But one planet in the solar system breaks all the rules. Uranus is the weirdest ...

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...

A pair of images, taken eight years apart, show changes to the ice giant planet as spring arrives in the northern hemisphere. By Kenneth Chang With the passage of the vernal equinox a few days ago, we ...

A new NASA study concludes four of Uranus' 27 moons likely have oceans locked under their icy crusts. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / J. DePasquale (STScI) Some of Uranus' moons likely have deep oceans ...

NASA has turned its powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Uranus. JWST's picture shows 11 of the icy giant's 13 rings in unprecedented detail. The picture could shed light on the planet's ...