The US space agency took advantage of a rare cosmic event to get a glimpse inside the distant ice giant and you will not ...

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

NASA chiefs took advantage of an unusual cosmic event to get their first detailed glimpse inside the mysterious planet this ...

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

A rare one-hour occultation in April 2025 let NASA and global scientists uncover new secrets about Uranus’ atmosphere, rings, and weather using infrared tech.

Observing the alignment allows NASA scientists to measure the temperatures and composition of Uranus's stratosphere—the middle layer of a planet's atmosphere—and determine how it has changed ...

“NASA will use the observations of Uranus to determine how energy moves around the atmosphere and what causes the upper layers to be inexplicably hot,” said NASA planetary scientist William ...

There's many different layers to the Earth's atmosphere, but 75% of Earth's mass is actually going to be residing in the troposphere, where we are located. Also, we see all of Earth's weather occur in ...

As the star begins to disappear, hidden behind the planet, some of the light filters to the upper layers of the Uranian atmosphere, providing novel insights. “As Uranus began to occult the star ...

The Sun appears to “paint” the atmosphere ... stratospheric zones stripped of methane—exposing layers unseen before Hubble. Studying Uranus helps decode distant exoplanets of similar ...