An enhanced image from the high-powered telescope orbiting in space shows the planet Uranus in stunning new detail. The photo captures the icy blue planet's elusive rings, atmospheric storms ...
Uranus spins in the opposite direction to Earth and most other planets; the spin is called retrograde rotation. Its magnetosphere is tipped almost 60 degrees from its axis of rotation. Uranus's ...
The study investigated whether subsurface oceans exist in the icy moons of Uranus by examining the relationship between libration amplitudes (wobbling during rotation) and internal structures.
Uranus was an ideal target as a test for understanding ... which indicates that the cloud features were not changing with the ...
On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...
Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...
A day on Uranus is 17.25 Earth hours long. This is how long it takes Uranus to complete a single rotation on its axis. This means that Uranus has shorter days than on Earth but much longer years.