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.
New Earth-Like Planet Discovered: Could It Be Humanity’s Future Home?
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...
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NASA set to search for alien planets from 2027 as new space telescope set for launch
The new space telescope is also seen as a key stepping stone to future technology that will allow astronomers to search for inhabited planets, NASA said. Part of the mission is to test the Roman ...
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New FORBIDDEN PLANET Movie in Development at Warner Bros. From Writer Brian K. Vaughan
Warner Bros. is developing a remake of the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet . The movie will be written by comic book and ...