Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky this week.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 28The Moon passes 9° south of Venus at 10 A.M. EDT this ...

Passive radar sounding using Uranus' natural radio emissions, known as Uranian Kilometric Radio (UKR), could help study its five largest moons—Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—for ...

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Two of Uranus’ moons may be home to active oceans hidden beneath their surfaces.

If human life existed on the planet Uranus, it’s likely the same phenomenon might happen. But now we know that a single day on Uranus is 28 seconds longer than astronomers first calculated in ...

Back in 2024, astronomers announced one new moon for Uranus (S/2023 U1) and two new moons for Neptune (S/2002 N5 and S/2021 N1). The new moons, found using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

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This placed the ringed planet firmly in the lead. Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16, for a total of 142 moons.

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...

A day on Uranus just got slightly longer, thanks to more accurate measurements of its rotation period that should help scientists plan missions to probe the gas giant. Figuring out the rotation ...