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Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought - ...
Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 ...
New observations have revealed that a day on Uranus is slightly longer than previously thought. According to scientists, data ...
How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...
These long-term observations can also help scientists study exoplanets with similar traits. An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into ...
Both teams say that Uranus, which takes 84 years to orbit the sun, reflects a bit more sunlight into space than Voyager had found. This means that the sun heats the planet less than previously ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...
The planet Uranus takes about 84 Earth years (or ... these gravitational forces hold moons and satellites in orbit around planets. In addition to planets and moons, many artificial satellites ...