The observatory’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument observed Uranus for almost a full rotation just over a year ...

The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.

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

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...

James Webb Space Telescope data has allowed researchers to map Uranus’s upper atmosphere in three dimensions for the first time.

The James Webb Space Telescope recently spent 17 hours observing the mysterious world of Uranus, studying how faint molecular ...

This makes calculating the length of a Uranian day hard enough, but it's further complicated by Uranus being tilted at 98 degrees on its axis, so it's essentially rolling on its side, with the poles ...

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Uranus's mysteriously asymmetrical and skewed magnetic field has long confounded astronomers—until now. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped past Uranus in 1986, it noticed that the huge gas giant's ...

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Scientists have been able to get a better idea of how long a day on Uranus is, and it's slightly longer than they previously thought. New research shows that a day on the icy planet lasts for about ...