New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
A distant planet seems to have a sulfur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
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New year on Mars: Red Planet begins year 38 around the Sun with rovers to celebrate
The Martian calendar, established in 1955, counts years from the "great dust storm of 1956," a significant event in Mars' ...