The Hubble Space Telescope has peered at Uranus, left, and Neptune to study the so-called "ice giant" planets, but little is known about their interior composition. Credit: NASA / ESA / M. Showalter / ...
When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity had gathered on the giant planet up to that point. But as scientists become better at analyzing ...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts around Uranus. In 1986, when Voyager 2 made the first and only flyby of ...
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Uranus and Neptune might be rock giants
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system planets' interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two ...
Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the "ice giant" planets of the solar system decades ago. Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that ...
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