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For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and ...
The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to what can drive ...
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 ...