Listen to This Month’s ‘Planetary Parade’ With NASA’s Chandra
In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight : Six planets…
Webb Just Spent 17 Hours Staring at Uranus—and Found Its Auroras Are Even Weirder Than We Thought
On January 19, the Webb space telescope stared deep into the chaotic world of Uranus for 17 hours,…
Webb Reveals Hidden Layers of Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
For the first time, astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ ionosphere, uncovering unexpected temperature peaks, weakened…
Scientists Discover Bizarre Form Of Water That’s Both Solid And Liquid
Dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in…
Voyager 2 Caught Uranus on a Bad Weather Day in 1986, Study Finds
When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
Everything to Know About Supermoon Season
Is empathy a lost art? The final two full moons of the year might have something to say…
Not gold, but diamond rainstorms! Meet the richest planets of the solar system
Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing…
We finally know why Uranus is so cold
For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. A pale blue glimmer in the…
Uranus Has a Tiny New Moon and It’s Only Six Miles Wide
James Webb has revealed Uranus’ smallest moon yet, a six-mile-wide world hidden near its inner rings. This discovery…
Webb discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists discover a new moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total…
Uranus Really Is Hotter Than It Has Any Right to Be
A new analysis of decades’ worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than…