New images of Uranus and Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal how weather slowly changes on these giant, distant planets. Hubble images of the ice giant Uranus taken in 2014 and 2022, ...

The moons of Uranus may have short-lived atmospheres every time the seasons change. The seasons there are so intense that these tenuous atmospheres, called exospheres, could exist briefly twice every ...

A pair of images, taken eight years apart, show changes to the ice giant planet as spring arrives in the northern hemisphere. By Kenneth Chang With the passage of the vernal equinox a few days ago, we ...

Our planet isn’t the only place in the solar system with dramatic weather changes. Other planets in the solar system also experience seasons, depending on their distance from the sun, and that affects ...

The Hubble Space Telescope keeps an eye on the slowly changing weather of the solar system's giant planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

image: [LEFT]—The forecast for Jupiter is stormy weather at low northern latitudes. A prominent string of alternating storms is visible, forming a "vortex street" as some planetary astronomers call it ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – With an 84-year orbit around the sun, it isn’t often that planetary scientists have an opportunity to observe the change of seasons on Uranus, a planet some 19 times farther from the ...

A new NASA study concludes four of Uranus' 27 moons likely have oceans locked under their icy crusts. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / J. DePasquale (STScI) Some of Uranus' moons likely have deep oceans ...

Most pictures of Uranus in textbooks show it as a bright blue, featureless ball. But the James Webb Space Telescope, the preeminent new observatory that senses light at invisible, infrared wavelengths ...