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Icon for gizmodo.comGizmodo · Apr 8, 2025

A Long-Held Assumption About Uranus Just Got Upended

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Lamy, L. Sromovsky Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space ...
Icon for www.scientificamerican.comScientific American · 28d

A Day on Uranus Is Longer Than We Thought, Hubble Telescope Reveals

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...
Phys.org on MSN.com · 7d

Is this the first hint of Planet Nine?

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like Pluto,
Icon for www.newscientist.comNew Scientist · Apr 8, 2025

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

A day on Uranus just got slightly longer, thanks to more accurate measurements of its rotation period that should help scientists plan missions to probe the gas giant. Figuring out the rotation ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Apr 4, 2025

The Sky This Week from April 4 to 11: Catch your last views of Uranus

That identification may still be challenging ... Catch your last views of Uranus appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.
Icon for www.popsci.comPopular Science · Apr 7, 2025

Uranus has a longer day than astronomers thought

If human life existed on the planet Uranus, it’s likely the same phenomenon might happen. But now we know that a single day on Uranus is 28 seconds longer than astronomers first calculated in ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Aug 20, 2024

Everything we knew about Uranus changed after astronomers captured new images of the gas giant

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Icon for www.livescience.comLive Science · Apr 8, 2025

Scientists finally know how long a day on Uranus is

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Uranus up-close. Using radio ...
Icon for www.independent.co.ukThe Independent · Apr 7, 2025

A day on Uranus is actually longer than previously thought

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Icon for www.nature.comNature · Apr 7, 2025

We’ve misunderstood Uranus all these years

Planetary scientists have pinpointed the rotation period of Uranus — and it’s 28 seconds longer than they thought it was 1. Like other gas-giant planets, Uranus doesn’t have a rocky surface ...
Icon for www.sciencedaily.comScience Daily · Jan 4, 2024

Uranus News

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...
Icon for www.newsweek.comNewsweek · 29d

A Day on Uranus Just Got Longer

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was ...
Icon for www.hindustantimes.comHindustan Times · 8d

Do you like breaking the rules? It could be Uranus in your birth chart

Ever felt like you just cannot follow the crowd, no matter how hard you try? That might be Uranus doing its thing in your birth chart. Uranus, the quirky and eccentric planet, is all about doing ...
Icon for phys.orgPhys.org · Apr 7, 2025

Hubble helps determine Uranus' rotation rate with unprecedented precision

This technique revealed that Uranus completes a full rotation in 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds—28 seconds longer than the estimate obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.
Icon for www.yahoo.comYahoo · Apr 7, 2025

A day on Uranus is actually longer than we thought, Hubble Telescope reveals

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...