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Icon for www.space.comSpace.com · 9d

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." This rare event ...
Icon for www.yahoo.comYahoo · 28d

A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer

This image provided by ESA/Hubble shows Uranus' aurorae taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on Oct. 10, 2022. (ESA/Hubble via AP) 37,127 people played the daily Crossword recently.
Icon for www.scientificamerican.comScientific American · 26d

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 ...
Mashable India · 6d

NASA Peeks Into Uranus's Atmosphere As It Blocks A Star 400 Light-Years Away

William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 light-years away and the event lasted an hour. The rare occultation brought together over 30 astronomers who used 18 professional observatories for observations.
Icon for www.ecoticias.comECOticias.com · 22d

Uranus, are you there? NASA’s Hubble discovers we’ve been wrong since 1986

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope introduced research findings that forced a major change in scientific understanding of Uranus. The established knowledge about Uranus’s rotation period remained unchanged throughout many decades. Scientific measurements of ...
Business Today · 11d

'Uranus just blinked': Astronomers chase starlight to uncover the ice giant’s mysterious skies

Uranus eclipsed a star, giving scientists a rare peek into its atmosphere. The event could spark momentum for a future mission to the mysterious ice giant.
Icon for gizmodo.comGizmodo · 28d

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 newatlas.comNew Atlas · 26d

Hubble peers deep into Uranus, finds extra time

The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, or 28 seconds longer than the best previous estimate made by NASA’s Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.
Icon for arstechnica.comArs Technica · 28d

A military satellite waiting to launch with ULA will now fly with SpaceX

For the second time in six months, SpaceX will deploy a US military satellite that was sitting in storage, waiting for a slot on United Launch Alliance's launch schedule. Space Systems Command ...
Icon for www.independent.co.ukThe Independent · 28d

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 phys.orgPhys.org · Apr 3, 2025

Studying Uranian moons using passive radar sounding

Our instrument is currently being developed for this type of mission architecture, where repeated flybys of the satellites, while in Uranus orbit, provide the necessary opportunities for ...
Icon for www.newscientist.comNew Scientist · 28d

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 phys.orgPhys.org · 29d

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.space.comSpace.com · 29d

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 ...
Icon for www.yahoo.comYahoo · 8d

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

Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus — an event known as a planetary stellar occultation. | Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory NASA ...
Icon for www.newsweek.comNewsweek · 27d

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.news4jax.comNews4Jax · 28d

A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer

Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation. That’s 28 seconds ...
Icon for ktla.comKTLA · 28d

A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours ...
Icon for www.wsls.comWSLS 10 · 28d

A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer

That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun.
Icon for www.popsci.comPopular Science · 28d

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.livescience.comLive Science · 28d

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 ...