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NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Uranus while flying by the ice giant in 1986. The first panel of this artist’s concept depicts how Uranus’s magnetosphere — its protective bubble — was behaving ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Two of Uranus’ moons may be home to active oceans hidden beneath their surfaces.

This stolen material piles up on the surface of the stellar remnant until a thermonuclear runaway is triggered. Type Ia supernovae are so uniform in terms of their light output that astronomers ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...