On November 21, Uranus will appear the brightest this year, as it enters apposition, or opposition. The term "opposition" in ...

NASA's Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one ...

Strange things are happening to the rings of Uranus, that little blue planet way out there in the solar system. It has rings and moons, and once every 42 years, the planet's tilted angle lets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

Once again, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a stunning image of one of the solar system’s ice giants: Uranus. The new image, which was taken on Feb. 6, 2023, was released by NASA on ...

This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows how the ring system around the distant planet Uranus appears at ever more oblique (shallower) tilts as viewed from Earth – culminating in ...

Image: The dashed line indicates the position of the innermost of two new rings discovered recently by the Hubble Space Telescope and confirmed by ground based observations with the Keck II Telescope ...

Bundle up and blast off to the far reaches of our Solar System for Ice Giant Night at the historic Cincinnati Observatory.

The James Webb Space Telescope spends most of its observational time peering through time and space to reveal incredibly distant objects. On a few occasions, astronomers have used it to look at ...

Researchers measuring heat in Uranus's atmosphere were "astonished" to find the warm glow of rings around the planet in thermal images. The findings were described in a study published in the ...

Uranus is the only planet that rotates sideways with a 98-degree tilt. Learn why Uranus spins this way, how its seasons last ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and ...