"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer Marc Hon.

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

The moon count in our solar system just went up by three. Astronomers have found two previously unknown moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The distant tiny moons were ...

A design studio's plan for a new collectible set seeks to "pin" down the pivotal probes from space exploration history. Chop ...

Space weather creates the Northern Lights on Earth, and more recently, aurora lights on Uranus helped Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...

Languages: English. Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous ...

A recent study using data from the Hubble Space Telescope has shown that Uranus's rotation period is longer than previously thought. The ice giant takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds to ...

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Lamy, L. Sromovsky Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space ...

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Comet SWAN25F was discovered using photos from the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft and can currently be spied using backyard equipment — but it could also become visible to the naked eye ...

(WHTM) – The Hubble Space Telescope has been measuring Uranus’ interior rotation and determined that a day on the planet is longer than initially thought. According to a French-led team of ...