Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, comparing high-resolution images from Hubble to the more-distant view from New Horizons.

The images of Uranus were taken by NASA's high-powered James Webb Space Telescope and captured the icy planet along with its multiple inner and outer rings, many moons and a seasonal polar cap.

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, comparing high-resolution images from Hubble to the more-distant view from New Horizons.

While New Horizons was performing its distant observations, Hubble, in low-Earth orbit around our home planet, was only 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion km) away from Uranus.

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 ...

Space.com caught up with Hofstadter to discuss what exploration of Uranus — that far-flung, ice giant of a world with a mass roughly 14.5 times that of Earth — can offer. The planet has been ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world. CNN values your feedback 1.

Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, comparing high-resolution images from Hubble to the more-distant view from New Horizons. This ...