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Space.com on MSN.com · 8d

Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event

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."

India Today on MSN.com · 12d

Rare cosmic event reveals Uranus's rings like never before

The data collected will help researchers understand how Uranus' atmosphere functions and how it has evolved over the past 30 years since the last significant occultation in 1996.

Business Today · 6d

'One-Hour Miracle': How a distant star helped NASA spy on Uranus’ hidden secrets

A rare one-hour occultation in April 2025 let NASA and global scientists uncover new secrets about Uranus’ atmosphere, rings, and weather using infrared tech.

NASA Takes Advantage of Planetary Alignment to Take a Peek at Uranus

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

IFLScience on MSN.com · 12d

Rare Alignment Gives NASA A Chance To Peer Into Uranus

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has only sent one spacecraft to the planet, Voyager 2 in 1986, which had a chance to look at the planet up close.

Gadgets 360 · 6d

NASA Observes Rare Uranus Occultation, Unveiling New Atmospheric and Ring Details

The scientists also observed that ice and gas giants like Uranus may be natural laboratories for learning about atmospheres. This absence of solid ground means that cloud formation, storm development, and connections between wind patterns are all part of a unified system— a kind of warm, wet, swirling ocean of air that we call the atmosphere.

Phys.org on MSN.com · 13d

Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet's atmosphere and rings.

Natural History Museum%2c London · Dec 24, 2023

Planet Uranus

which is visible in this image of Uranus, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in our 2016 exhibition, Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System. The image also shows the faint ring system that surrounds the planet. Discovered in 1977, the rings ...

Gizmodo · Dec 22, 2023

Rings Around Uranus, Leather Made of Human Skin, and More Top Science News of the Week

And don’t get me started on the puns I had to edit out of the Uranus rings article. – Rose Pastore Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. News from the future ...

Science Daily · Jan 4, 2024

Uranus News

The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from a passing ... Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and ... Uranus Aurora Discovery Offers Clues ...