When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term girlfriend.

Uranus emits 12% more heat than it gets from the Sun, contradicting Voyager 2 data. The discovery points to lingering formation heat and strengthens calls for a new NASA flagship mission to the ...

Scientists looked at decades' worth of data, combining reports and readings from various spacecraft and new computer modeling ...

Scientists find Uranus radiates more heat than once believed, reshaping our understanding of giant planets and guiding NASA’s next mission.

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

On March 13, 1781, Uranus was discovered – and with it came a host of cosmic mysteries. In this video, we uncover the strange secrets of the solar system’s third-largest planet, from its ...

Using over ten years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have figured out exactly how long it takes Uranus to spin once on its axis.

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. These observations were made by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and includes both ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial objects—including exoplanets ...

Lightshow On Uranus Unlocks Its Rotation Secret – Its Day Is 28 Seconds Longer A new technique has measured the day on the ice planet with 1000 times more precision.