"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...

Uranus, the tilted and mysterious ice giant ... patterns and atmospheric dynamics – and may even provide clues about similar-sized exoplanets orbiting distant stars. When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

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The satellite has now become the oldest artificial object still silently orbiting Earth in a high elliptical orbit. Now, a team at Virginia-based consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has a bold ...

As the night sky unfolds, a subtle yet captivating smudge of stars emerges high above at sunset. Known as the Beehive Cluster ...

Saturn long held the record for having the most moon, however just a few months ago after the discovery of more moons orbiting Jupiter, that planet took the lead. Well, now using new data and ...

Have we ever been to Uranus? The answer is simple, yes, but only once. The Voyager II spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus back in 1986, during a golden era when the Voyager spacecraft explored all ...

Skygazers are still waiting for the celestial event of the year, when a dance between two stars 3,000 light-years away ends in a massive explosion and creates a new dazzling temporary "star" in the ...

Space weather creates the Northern Lights on Earth, and more recently, aurora lights on Uranus helped NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured footage while orbiting our planet on the International Space Station (ISS). The video showed his view of the Earth before docking in the Soyuz spacecraft ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

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.