Uranus and Neptune have been a source of mystery due ... with the water component giving them their "ice giant" designation. Also read | NASA's Juno captures closest views of erupting volcanoes ...

Much about Uranus and Neptune remains unknown. These ice giant worlds have had just a single spacecraft visitor, Voyager 2, which flew past them in the 1980s. As a result, scientists have only a ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — ...

Uranus just added 28 seconds to its day, rewriting what we thought we knew. Thanks to auroras and Hubble data, science is ...

The hidden moons were discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, and the discovery brings ... faintest that we’ve ever found around the two ice giants using ground-based telescopes.

6, 2023 — Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system's other ice giant, the planet Uranus.

Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long ... Saturn and Uranus. Previously, the existence of auroral activity on Neptune was only hinted at, as instruments on NASA’s Voyager ...

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was made ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an unprecedented study spanning two decades, researchers using NASA's Hubble ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...