James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

This image of Uranus was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in August 2005 using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). You can see the planet’s beautiful rings.

This image of Uranus was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in August 2005 using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). You can see the planet’s beautiful rings.

The planet has 13 rings made of ice and dust. Saturn's rings are more well-known, but the rings of Uranus are equally interesting and have been the subject of scientific research for decades.

"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 ...

Like its spin axis, Uranus’ magnetic field axis is also far from conventional. Whereas the magnetic and geographic poles of most planets usually lie not too far off from each other, Uranus ...

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope exquisitely captures Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap and dim inner and outer rings.

When will we see Saturn's rings again from Earth? It won't be long before the rings will reappear to us here on Earth and they make the slow transition to their widest visibility by 2032. But one ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, may initially look like a bland, blue-green ball. But there's a lot to love about the icy giant, from its 13 rings to its 27 known moons to the fact that ...