The crescent Moon lies in Taurus near the planet Uranus. You can easily spot the distant ice giant with binoculars or a small ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The moon seems to hang in the balance between Earth's atmosphere and the blackness of space in a picture taken from the International Space Station. Photography by Reid Wiseman, NASA.

Home of World Music, set to take place at Uranus Garden between September 5 and September 7, lines up this year artists who ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading sides of the outer moons. This surprised the team and indicates that Uranus’ ...

New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere haven’t been this high in millions of years.

A new study, published in Nature, shows that the atmosphere’s growing thirst for water is making droughts more severe, even in places where rainfall has stayed the same. The paper details how this ...