Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

NASA scientists are suddenly turning their attention to Uranus, a planet long neglected and still largely unexplored. According to a new planetary science report, a flagship mission to Uranus is now ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.