New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 16, 1948, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first vertical view of Uranus's upper atmosphere, delivering an unprecedented look at the planet's ionosphere and auroral structures. The new ...

Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

On Feb. 16, 1948, Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper was using the telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas to photograph the four moons of Uranus: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, and Ariel. An ...

Scientists have been able to peer into Uranus’ upper atmosphere for the first time thanks to the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - and have documented the icy giant’s own version of the ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of a new moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. The tiny satellite, just about 10 kilometers wide, was detected using long-exposure observations from ...

Astronomers capture first images of aurora on Uranus using powerful telescope - ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been gazing at signals that left the solar system before many of today's graduate students were even born ...

On Feb. 3, Uranus will finally station direct, after a retrograde journey that began in September last year Everything you thought was solid is shifting, and there’s no turning back! On Feb. 3, Uranus ...

Uranus stands stationary at midnight EST. Located in the constellation Taurus, the ice giant is visible after sunset and sets around 2 A.M. local time. Shining at magnitude 5.7, Uranus generally ...