From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think ...

Uranium is a story of duality. It is a mineral pulled from ancient rocks that can light up a city or wipe one off the map. It’s not just a relic of the Cold War or science fiction. It’s real, it’s ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

Astronomers using the «James Webb» telescope have obtained a unique image of the exoplanet 14 Herculis c, which turned out to ...

Uranus is often called the “ice giant” due to its cold, methane-rich atmosphere. Despite temperatures that plunge to –224°C, its upper atmosphere is mysteriously hotter than expected, a ...

Coldest Planet in the Solar System: Uranus reaches temperatures as low as -224°C (-371°F), even colder than Neptune. Faint Rings: Uranus has 13 thin rings , which are much darker and harder to ...

Scientists can’t say for sure why Uranus runs cold. Perhaps the planet lost all its primordial heat when it received a hard knock. Or, heat is still lurking in the core, ...

Convection leads to magnetic fields. As a planet cools from its surface downward, cold and denser material sinks, while blobs of hotter fluid rise like boiling water—a process called convection.

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, ... As a planet cools from its surface downward, cold and denser material sinks, ...

What’s known about Uranus could be off the mark. An unusual cosmic occurrence during the Voyager 2 spacecraft’s 1986 flyby might have skewed how scientists characterized the ice giant, new ...

The planet Uranus and its five largest moons may not be the cold, lifeless worlds scientists once believed. Instead, they could have hidden oceans and even the potential to support life, according ...

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years. A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...