"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 ...

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 ...

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Scientists: Dire wolf brought back from extinction after 13,000 years Boss uses a recruiter-approved ...

During the IPL 2025 match between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), Sanjay Manjrekar made an astronomy reference in the commentary box and compared Glenn Maxwell's batting to Halley's ...

(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 ...

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 ...