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

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

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

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

causing the orientation of its magnetic axis to become "completely lost" within just a couple of years after the spacecraft's ...

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 ...

previous coordinate systems based on outdated rotation periods quickly became inaccurate, making it impossible to track Uranus’ magnetic poles over time,” said Laurent Lamy, an astronomer at ...

Previous coordinate systems based on outdated rotation periods quickly became inaccurate, making it impossible to track Uranus' magnetic poles over time," explains Lamy.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

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 Consequently, coordinate systems relying on the outdated ...