Nov. 2, 2011 — -- Something strange is happening on the planet Uranus.A fuzzy white spot has appeared on its frigid blue cloud tops, 1.8 billion miles from the sun, and astronomers say it's ...

More on Uranus. Located 1.8 billion miles (nearly 3 billion kilometers) away from our sun, Uranus takes 84 years to complete a full rotation. The planet is unique in its tilt to its side, causing ...

Uranus will enter retrograde motion at 9:40 p.m. EDT (1340 GMT). Although Uranus is visible to the naked eye, skywatchers will get a better view of the blue-green ice giant planet using binoculars ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's images show Uranus' rings, moons and storms in detail, including a glimpse of the seasonal north polar cloud cap, NASA announced Monday.The rare feature could be ...

In Hubble’s November 2022 image of Uranus, the planet’s north pole has a large off-white circle, caused from a thickened photochemical haze that resembles the smog produced over cities ...

The six largest known rocks that orbit Uranus are borrowed from works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope: Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. The features on these satellites have ...

Often appearing in images to have starkly different hues, the true colors of Neptune and Uranus may be more similar than previously thought, new research has found.

In the 2022 view, Uranus’ rotational axis is severely off-kilter, causing the planet’s north pole to be turned toward the Sun. That pole is dominated by a polar cap, and a few storms are ...

Uranus, as first revealed by NASA’s passing Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, is a featureless light-blue blob. ... “That haze is sort of white-ish in appearance,” Dr. Irwin said.

(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a glowing new portrait of Uranus that showcases the ice giant’s typically hidden rings, moons, weather and atmosphere — features that were ...