Scientists have a more accurate estimation of a day's duration in Uranus, which they believe will help them in preparing for ...

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 ...

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...

causing the orientation of its magnetic axis to become "completely lost" within just a couple of years after the spacecraft's flyby. Consequently, coordinate systems relying on the outdated ...

previous coordinate systems based on outdated rotation periods quickly became inaccurate, making it impossible to track Uranus’ magnetic poles over time,” said Laurent Lamy, an astronomer at ...

Previous coordinate systems based on outdated rotation periods quickly became inaccurate, making it impossible to track Uranus' magnetic poles over time," explains Lamy. "With this new longitude ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial objects—including exoplanets ...