Made of rocks and dust that don’t reflect much sunlight, Uranus’ rings are not easy for most telescopes to pick up. Not only did Webb manage to capture them, but its shot is the clearest yet ...

Astronomers zoomed in on the dusty rings around Uranus in a new series of stunning James Webb Space Telescope images. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Neptune's rings are even darker than those of Uranus, and the density suggests that they are made of even finer dust. This is likely to be some kind of carbon or a source of carbon such as methane ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center. "Saturn's are mostly ice, Jupiter's are mostly dust, and Uranus' and ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Four decades after their discovery, the 13 mysterious rings around Uranus surprised astronomers again this summer. In June, new images ...

Comparison of the lit and unlit sides of the rings of Uranus. (A) The lit side in early July 2004, when the ring opening angle to Earth was 11 , and the angle to the Sun was 13.2 .

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of Uranus, detailing the ice giant's ring system, its brightest moons and its zestful atmosphere.. The observation, made Feb. 6, comes on ...

LOS ANGELES – Astronomers aided by the Hubble Space Telescope have spied two more rings encircling Uranus, the first additions to the planet's ring system in nearly two decades. The faint, dusty ...

Strange things are happening to the rings of Uranus, that little blue planet way out there in the solar system. It has rings and moons, and once every 42 years, the planet's tilted angle lets ...

LOS ANGELES - Astronomers aided by the Hubble Space Telescope have spied two more rings encircling Uranus, the first additions to the planet’s ring system in nearly two decades.

Astronomers have uncovered that Uranus' rings have a "warm" glow to them, a trait that's befuddling them. The images, released by the University of California Berkeley and taken by the Atacama ...