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Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of Uranus as an unusually cold planet isn't true, but that it does actually ...
Changing seasons on Uranus tracked across 20 years by Hubble Space Telescope. Sharmila Kuthunur. Tue, April 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC. 3 min read.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Uranus, which will help inform future direct imaging of exoplanets.
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...
The Hubble team observed Uranus four times in the 20-year period: in 2002, 2012, 2015, and 2022. They found that unlike conditions on the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter, methane is not uniformly ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...
Uranus is unlike any other planet in space. It tilts sideways, spinning like a barrel in orbit. Each pole gets 42 years of ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...
Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...
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 ...
Hubble uncovered the rings in August 2004 during a series of 80, four- minute exposures of Uranus. The team later recognized the faint new rings in 24 similar images taken a year earlier.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes ...