With its unparalleled resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen structural details and features as massive stars are only just being born.

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school that’s changed in recent years. Everything from the ...

Find out when the next full moon will light up the night sky. Discover its phases and mysteries with ExtremeTech’s guide.

NASA scientists found evidence of darkness on the 'leading side' of Uranus' moons, which they expected to be bright.

In April 2025, a rare stellar occultation provided NASA scientists a unique opportunity to study Uranus' atmosphere, offering insights not possible in over three decades. By observing the light ...

Rare Alignment Gives NASA A Chance To Peer Into Uranus Fifteen observatories across the US, Mexico, and Hawai’i looked at the planet eclipsing a star.

Have we ever been to Uranus? The answer is simple, yes, but only once. The Voyager II spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus back in 1986, during a golden era when the Voyager spacecraft explored all… ...

A new paper suggests that the only data we've captured of Uranus's magnetosphere may have been skewed by rare solar wind activity.

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus (shown here in a false-color infrared image), the probe detected a strange magnetic environment around the planet. That may have been a fluke of timing. NASA, ESA ...

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.