Located in the outer reaches of the solar system, Uranus is a strange planet. Only one spacecraft — Voyager 2 — has ever visited, so astronomers know relatively little about the distant world. Already ...

Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected X-rays from the planet Uranus for the first time. Researchers used observations of the ice giant taken in 2002 and 2017 to detect the ...

Astronomers have confirmed, for the first time, X-rays coming from the ice giant Uranus, NASA announced Wednesday. The results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory could help answer questions from the ...

Astronomers have confirmed, for the first time, X-rays coming from the ice giant Uranus, NASA announced Wednesday. The results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory could help answer questions from the ...

For the first time, NASA announced that astronomers had detected x-rays emanating from Uranus using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The researchers think the finding could help scientists learn more ...

A composite image of Uranus, combining data from the optical and X-ray wavelengths. X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory For the first time, ...