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 ...

The New Moon is giving us fresh and perky vibes this week, y'all.

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

The week starts with the new moon in Taurus, allowing us to dream big on April 27. Three days later, Venus in Aries urges us ...

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

"This study suggests that for every three stars, there is likely at least one super-Earth with a Jupiter-like orbital period, ...

An international team of astronomers has found that super-Earth exoplanets are far more common across the universe than once ...

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 ...

By closely studying light anomalies caused by a newly discovered planet’s host star, and combining this information with a ...

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 ...