The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

It turns out, Uranus is practically on its side which makes it distinct from the other planets in the solar system. But it ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...