New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise measurements yet of the stinky planet's rotation rate, a full day on Uranus lasts ...

Astronomers using the powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus, according to NASA. The discovery boosts the number of moons known to ...

“There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” said Matthew Tiscareno, a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute. He made the comment after a find that is a testament ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...

However, this takes a lot of observations because, like Earth, the Uranian magnetic poles tend to drift. The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The outer reaches of our solar system just got a little more crowded, with astronomers spotting a previously unseen moon circling Uranus. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a ...

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"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons are ...