A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

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Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Think cold, gassy slushy with gusty winds and storms. NASA is already looking ahead to the next big occultation of Uranus in 2031, which will involve an even brighter background star. That could ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation." This rare event ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these ...

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On the opposite end of the spectrum, Uranus has a 90-degree tilt, so the poles are either completely facing the sun, or not at all, meaning its seasons are intense: Summers are filled with long ...