Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – a difference that could be crucial in planning future missions to the gas g ...

NASA's MESSENGER mission came to an end when the spacecraft intentionally crashed into the surface of Mercury. MESSENGER was ...

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior rotation ... offset from its rotational axis. The findings not only ...

On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ... highly tilted and offset. By comparing measurements of that field, astronomers were able to estimate the planet’s rotation at 17 hours ...

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 ...

This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was made by NASA's Voyager 2 probe during ... that is significantly offset from the planet's rotational axis. "The continuous ...

The rotation period of Uranus was estimated to be 17.24 ... This is due to the planet’s highly tilted magnetic field, which is significantly offset from its rotational axis. The findings not only help ...