'Ice giant' planets Uranus and Neptune might not be full of ice after all

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
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Uranus may have more in common with Earth than we thought, 40-year-old Voyager 2 probe data shows

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...
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Are Uranus and Neptune Really Ice Giants? New Study Says Maybe Not

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.
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Uranus's small moons are dark, red, and water-poor

The solar system's oddball planet has some pretty odd moons, too. The first infrared spectra of Uranus's small inner moons, ...

4K Hubble captured stunning views of Jupiter and Uranus

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be ...
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Uranus and Neptune are hiding something big beneath the blue

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...
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Researchers uncover solar wind event that may explain Uranus’ strange magnetic behavior

New study of Voyager 2 data shows Uranus experienced a solar wind event during the 1986 flyby, helping explain unusual magnetosphere readings ...

Decades Later, Scientists Finally Explain Voyager 2’s Bizarre Readings at Uranus

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...
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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of Wind

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...
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A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...
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Uranus’s small moons appear dark, red, and short on water

Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...