New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

Visualizing our solar system is one of those third-eye treats that never grows old. The Sun and its gravitationally bound planets, asteroids, etc. are in constant relative motion, and thinking about ...

Scientists announced Monday that Earth is rotating slightly faster than normal, resulting in what is expected to become the second-shortest day ever recorded since precise atomic timekeeping began.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Given the right rotation rates and distance from their ...

Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records began. Though we cannot sense these changes, they show the forces that ...