When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds, Cold War standoffs or the glowing green rods from ...

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 ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...

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 ...