The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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