NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus
Only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, has ever visited the ice giants Neptune and Uranus . That could be set to change next decade, as NASA is considering sending an orbiter to one of these planets. A repo…
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Uranus ‘Gapes Wide Open For Blasts Of Hot Wind’, Scientists Claim
Uranus ‘opens wide’ on a daily basis to let in blasts of solar wind – then it clenches shut again, scientists have claimed. The solar system’s rudest planet has been in the headlines a lot lately, as…
Scientists Discover Incredible New Kind Of Ice Thought To Exist In Uranus
Scientists have created a “strange” new form of water that behaves like a cross between a liquid and a solid. The substance, known as “superionic water ice”, is thought to be a key component in the s…
NASA Wants To Probe Uranus In Search Of Gas
We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that’s because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on the surface of those planets. The planets that lie f…
Here Is Why Uranus Opens And Shuts On A Daily Basis
Uranus is all over the place. It spins weirdly, its magnetic field is off-center, and now we’ve just found out it may open and shut its magnetosphere every day, too. The research by Xin Cao and Carol…
NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA grou…
NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA grou…
Uranus Will Look Spectacular Tonight
Keep your eyes on the skies this month, because you just might catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus in our Solar System. On October 19, Uranus will be at its closest point to Earth . This…
Mysterious Uranus and Why We Need To Put an Orbiter around It
The first planet to be discovered using a telescope has an oddly featureless view. Most of our limited knowledge of Uranus (and the incredible featureless picture below) comes from a single flyby mis…
Some Interesting Facts about Uranus that You Probably Don’t know
The gas (and ice) giant known as Uranus is a fascinating place. The seventh planet from out Sun, Uranus is the third-largest in terms of size, the fourth-largest in terms of mass, and one of the le…
Uranus Is Having a Rough Time, And It’s Only Going to Get Worse
If we could somehow travel to the other planets in our solar system on a whim — you know, just for sightseeing and such — nobody would want to hang around Uranus for long. It’s a cold, dangerous plac…
It Rains Diamond on Uranus, and Now We Know How
Researchers from Stanford have shown how the frigid, high-pressure atmospheres of the planets Uranus and Neptune can create a "rain" of diamonds. The team from the SLAC National Accelerat…
Uranus Opens And Shuts On A Daily Basis
Uranus is all over the place. It spins weirdly, its magnetic field is off-center, and now we’ve just found out it may open and shut its magnetosphere every day, too. The research by Xin Cao and Carol…