A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

NASA scientists seized a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere during a stellar occultation, when the planet passed ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

A rare astronomical alignment on April 7, 2025, presented NASA with a unique chance to study the atmosphere and rings of ...

This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its ...

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a longer day on Uranus than previously thought, correcting data from 1986 and reshaping ...

The reason this worked so well is thanks to Hubble’s consistent, long-term observations. Over more than a decade, the space ...

The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...