The James Webb Space Telescope spends much of its time peering out into distant regions of space searching for some of the earliest galaxies to exist, but it also occasionally turns its sights onto ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the rings of Uranus. The stunning high-resolution image shows all of the distant planet’s inner and outer rings, as well ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery, revealing a new moon orbiting Uranus, estimated to be just six miles in diameter. This tiny celestial body adds a new chapter to our ...

A visualization of a recently discovered aurora on Uranus. Illustration: NASA, ESA and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) for the background image of Uranus Feast your eyes on Uranus’ glowing edges. We’re ...

Uranus marches to the beat of its own weird little drum. Although it shares many similarities with our Solar System's other ice giant, Neptune, it has a bunch of quirks that are all its own.

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on January 24, ...

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