The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
If an 80-degree November day in New York City is not indicative of the global climate crisis, I don’t know what is. With ...
We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
Montanans have been dazzled in recent months by colorful displays of the aurora, or northern lights, which occur when plasma ...
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...