A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...
An enhanced image from the high-powered telescope orbiting in space shows the planet Uranus in stunning new detail. The photo captures the icy blue planet's elusive rings, atmospheric storms ...
New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...
Uranus and Neptune remain visible with binoculars ... followed four minutes later by Tethys. Tethys' shadow appears about 40 minutes after it. Rhea exits the disk around 10:30 p.m. CST and ...