A new mission concept, recently presented at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, promises to take humanity one ...

This makes calculating the length of a Uranian day hard enough, but it's further complicated by Uranus being tilted at 98 degrees on its axis, so it's essentially rolling on its side, with the poles ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first vertical map of Uranus’s ionosphere, giving scientists a three-dimensional look at the ice giant’s auroras and the strange atmospheric dynamics ...

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Throughout most of recorded history, humankind had known only six planets, five in the sky — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — plus Earth once it became generally accepted in the 17th century ...

Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, ...

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