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New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...
The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...
In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
Based on data from NASA's Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 and decades of modeling, scientists expected the trailing hemispheres of ...
Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its ...
New Hubble observations reveal unexpected darkening on Uranus’ moons, challenging long-held assumptions about its ...
Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter ...
Learn about the unexpected discovery that has shaped new perspectives on Uranus' moons and their brightness.
A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...