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The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in ...
Scientists looked at decades' worth of data, combining reports and readings from various spacecraft and new computer modeling ...
Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune each emit more energy than they receive from the Sun, meaning they have comparatively warm ...
A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from ...
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...
Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...
If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.
But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...
The amount of heat emitted from Uranus is also influenced by its extremely long seasons, each lasting over 20 years.
For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus ...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...
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