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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 ...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...
Voyager 2 took longer to reach Jupiter than its sister spacecraft, Voyager 1, but also got to visit Uranus and Neptune. This made it the only spacecraft to visit either of the ice giants.
A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from ...
The Voyager missions are among the most groundbreaking and enduring space endeavors in history. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 ...
Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...
Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune each emit more energy than they receive from the Sun, meaning they have comparatively warm ...
Uranus does have an internal heat source like its planetary siblings, which may have led scientists to misinterpret the data ...
The seventh planet in the solar system has an average temperature of just -195°C, unsurprising given it’s 1.8billion miles ...
Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a ...