Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and its moons should be NASA's highest-priority new flagship ...

The seventh planet from the Sun is as mysterious as it is elusive, prompting astronomers to press for the first dedicated mission to the ice giant. Reading time 4 minutes With its strange rings and ...

A study has finally determined where Uranus gets its heat. Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined that the gas giant ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to what can drive ...

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Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory has published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science arguing that NASA should send a dedicated probe ...

Poor Uranus never gets any attention, and a new report from the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) says it's time that changed. In the group's new report, a Uranus probe is listed as the top ...

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A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from a passing spacecraft.