The cold, icy world of Uranus is framed by a pair of rings that orbit the planet at twice the distance of its main ring system. Each ring tells a different story — the outermost ring appears blue, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spends most of its observational time peering through time and space to reveal incredibly distant objects. On a few occasions, astronomers have used it to look at ...

Scientists have finally figured out how two faint outer rings around Uranus formed, solving a mystery nearly 2 billion miles away that had puzzled astronomers for years. A new study examined the ...

Boffins have had a rare peek inside Uranus - and found it has 13 rings and is full of gas. Excited NASA chiefs took advantage of an unusual cosmic event to get their first detailed glimpse inside the ...

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island are revealing new insight into the composition and origins of Uranus's two outer rings. Using data from the Keck Observatory ...

Strange things are happening to the rings of Uranus, that little blue planet way out there in the solar system. It has rings and moons, and once every 42 years, the planet's tilted angle lets ...

The rings that encircle Uranus may look similar in images, but their compositions are surprisingly different. Understanding the rings could help us unravel the many mysteries of this strange, dynamic ...

Image: The dashed line indicates the position of the innermost of two new rings discovered recently by the Hubble Space Telescope and confirmed by ground based observations with the Keck II Telescope ...

Telescope’s adaptive optics system (AO). On March 13, 1781, British astronomer William Herschel discovered an object that appeared large compared to a star during observations with a homemade 6.3 inch ...

On April 7, Uranus passed in front of a distant star located 400 light-years away, giving NASA scientists a rare cosmic alignment in which to investigate the distant ice giant. During the hour-long ...