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Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a ...
A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...
"These landmark New Horizons studies of Uranus from a vantage point unobservable ... of the Southwest Research Institute, said in the statement. The team's research could help to inform studies ...
The research gives engineers and scientists ... stunning image of the solar system's other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image ... Evidence That Saturn's Moon Mimas Is a Stealth Ocean ...
A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.
In April 2025, a rare stellar occultation provided NASA scientists a unique opportunity to study Uranus' atmosphere, offering ...
NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation." ...
"Uranus passed in front of a star that is about 400 light years from Earth," said William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center ... analyzing this new atmospheric data ...
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 ...
Credit: TIME LIFE PICTURES/NASA/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES Uranus has always been a bit of an oddball in our solar system and a new simulation presented by a group of researchers ...
Dr Heidi Hammel, of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ... the unusual colour changes of Uranus, have bedevilled us for decades", but the new study "should finally put ...