The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.
Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the ...
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.
Webb has delivered the first detailed 3D view of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering glowing auroras, heat peaks thousands of kilometers high, and the powerful influence of its tilted magnetic field ...
What does the atmosphere of Uranus look like? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to ...
The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
The results offer a new window into how ice‑giants distribute energy in their upper layers. The post Scientists take new ...
A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.
The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...