A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed the ice giant for nearly a full rotation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paola Tiranti of Northumbria University. (CREDIT: Northumbria University/Barry Pells) Uranus does not behave like an ordinary ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered new insights into the upper atmosphere of Uranus, where ions swirling above the ice giant planet's clouds meet the magnetic field surrounding the ...

When it's not busy dissecting distant galaxies or creating dark matter maps, the James Webb Space Telescope is also making a name for itself closer to home. To wit, it has produced the first-ever ...

What does the atmosphere of Uranus look like? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and United Kingdom ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is a very important tool for astronomers, thanks to instruments capable of remarkable feats. Recently, it mapped Uranus’s auroras in 3D, allowing scientists to study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 2 captured this image of the planet Uranus in 1986. - NASA Astronomers using the powerful eye of the James Webb Space ...

Get ready skywatchers, another astronomical event will take place on June 3. A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, where we'll see six planets – Jupiter, Mercury, ...

Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the charged particles that spark auroras do not gather in neat rings. They sweep ...