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A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.
Uranus eclipsed a star, giving scientists a rare peek into its atmosphere. The event could spark momentum for a future mission to the mysterious ice giant.
On April 7, 2025, star HIP 16271 was occulted by Uranus. As a star, it is by no means famous. A yellow-white star in the ...
An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...
Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...
When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...
Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.
Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 ...
A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial objects—including exoplanets ...
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 ...
A French-led team studied a decade’s worth of aurora observations at the ice giant to track its magnetic poles. That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh ...