120 Results From "uranus"

Uranus has a name that lends itself to butt jokes. But it's also immensely important to scientists, who have mixed feelings on the juvenile humor.
Science & Energy

Here’s What Uranus Scientists Think About Your Disgusting Jokes

A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter
Science & Energy

A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter

Remember Oumuamua, that weird and possibly-alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017? Some scientists have a boring explanation for what it was.
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Boring Scientists Say Strange “Oumuamua” Space Object Wasn’t Alien, Just Gassy

Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual "forbidden" gas giant exoplanet, which is so big, it defies our current models.
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Scientists Find Gigantic Planet a Quarter the Size of Its Star

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.
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If There Was a “Super-Earth” In Our Solar System, It Would Probably Kill Us All

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.
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Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

Academic Twitter has exploded with PNAS jokes after the hilariously-abbreviated journal published a nuclear economics take.
Future Society

Even Professional Scientists Think the Journal PNAS Has a Hilarious Name

Harvard professor Avi Loeb wants to retrieve a meteor from the bottom of the Pacific Oean because it may contain alien tech or remnants of alien culture.
Future Society

Harvard Professor Trying to Recover Alleged Alien Tech From Ocean

Uranus is giving off X-rays, according to a new study. Now scientists need to take a closer look and figure out what's actually causing them.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover X-Rays Blasting Out of Uranus

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.
Science & Energy

Jupiter’s Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet’s Rings

Scientists have discovered two "Super-Earth" planets orbiting a nearby dwarf star— and one of them may actually be habitable.
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Scientists Discover Nearby “Super-Earth” That May Support Life

A new study suggests that Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo as it formed by eating a bunch of baby planets.
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Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a gigantic comet — and they say it’s headed towards Earth.
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The Biggest Comet Ever Discovered Is About to Cruise by Earth

Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice."
Physics

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

By modeling the interior using simulations, an international team of scientists are having a closer look at the unusual watery cores of Uranus and Neptune.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Probe Center of Uranus, You’ll Hit Some Weird Water

Astronomers have spotted two space rocks in the asteroid belt that are teeming with organic matter, possibly the building blocks of life on Earth.
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Scientists Surprised by Objects of “Complex Organic Matter” in Asteroid Belt

Astronomers at UC Berkeley just took the temperature of the mysterious rings surrounding Uranus for the first time. They're cold: 77 degrees Kelvin.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Use New Instruments to Probe Rings Around Uranus

After revisiting 34-year-old data. NASA made a shocking discovery: Uranus is leaking its gassy atmosphere out into space.
Science & Energy

NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus

Thanks to a new upgrade made to the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, scientists are able to get an unprecedented look nearby celestial objects.
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Radio Telescope Is So Powerful It Can See the Surface of Other Worlds

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.
Solar Power

New Evidence: There Was Another Planet in the Solar System That Escaped