"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

A research team has successfully created the first-ever three-dimensional map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere.

The results offer a new window into how ice‑giants distribute energy in their upper layers. The post Scientists take new ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...

The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - 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 and ...

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As with Earth, Uranus has a magnetic field that shields it from cosmic radiation, but at the magnetic poles, where the magnetic lines of force converge, energetic particles can reach the atmosphere ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...

Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A day at Uranus ...