If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

"The two planets present an interesting contrast in their characteristics ... Earth but less massive than ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. They are believed to be primarily rocky, similar ...

It hosts one massive planet, 51 Eridani b, that orbits the star at a distance of about 13 AU (astronomical units) — equivalent to being between Saturn and Uranus in our Solar System. The images of HR ...

Yet, unlike its neighboring giants, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, Neptune’s auroras remained ... molecule known to form in auroras. In Webb’s images, these glowing auroras appear as vibrant ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – ...

Astronomers are interested in how this tilt affects the atmosphere of Uranus, as well as how the atmosphere works there in ...