Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – ...

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 ...

The data collected will help researchers understand how Uranus’ atmosphere functions and how it has evolved over the past 30 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a longer day on Uranus than previously thought, correcting data from 1986 and reshaping ...

Uranus has not had a whole lot of love from NASA ... the team found that the gas was not uniformly distributed across the planet, as it is on gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. During this time ...

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

Hubble Space Telescope data show that the time taken for the planet to revolve around its axis is almost half a minute longer than was thought.

While Uranus is not technically a gas giant, as it has a solid core, it’s hard to see what’s actually going on through all that gas, as powerful winds rip through the thick atmosphere.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...