A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

The data collected will help researchers understand how Uranus’ atmosphere functions and how it has evolved over the past 30 ...

Two zodiac signs attract financial luck thanks to the super new moon on April 27, 2025. This new moon (which is considered a supermoon because it'll be closest to the Earth in its orbit) is in Taurus, ...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and Uranus may have revealed why they differ in color. Credit: Directed by: Bethany ...

Read Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus - an event known as a ...

Planetary scientists call it a stellar occultation and that's exactly what happened with Uranus on April 7. Observing the alignment allows NASA scientists to measure the temperatures and ...

On April 7, 2025, star HIP 16271 was occulted by Uranus. As a star, it is by no means famous. A yellow-white star in the constellation of Taurus, not bright enough to be visible to the naked eye g ...

On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, four zodiac signs are the universe’s favorites. This day takes our wildest dreams and makes good ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.