Uranus, Neptune

Uranus and Neptune May Have Oceans Beneath Their Clouds, Revealing New Mysteries of the Ice Giants
Uranus and Neptune have long been a source of fascination and mystery for scientists, especially when it comes to their magnetic fields. While Earth and Jupiter boast well-defined magnetic dipoles, the fields of Uranus and Neptune appear skewed,
From Diamond Rain to Hidden Oceans: The True Secrets of Uranus and Neptune
New research at UC Berkeley offers a fresh perspective on Uranus and Neptune's interiors, indicating layered structures of water and hydrocarbons. These findings account for the planets' unusual magne
Vast Oceans of Water May Be Hiding Within Uranus and Neptune
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field.
Uranus’s swaying moons will help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans
A new computer model developed by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics 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.
What lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune?
Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two proposals for what lies
Neptune and Uranus might be home to hidden oceans
New research claims that Neptune and Uranus may hold hidden oceans of water and other materials below their extreme atmospheres.
Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet
One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...
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New Study Says Time Is Now For Thorough Probe Of Uranus
Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...
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Uranus and its icy moons: Broadening the search for alien life
By exploring Uranus’s moons, scientists aim to refine the tools and models necessary to search for life in similarly extreme ...
Secret oceans could exist in our solar system; new UT model aims to find them
Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...
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NASA’s only visit to Uranus happened during a rare cosmic occurrence
new research suggests.In particular, the spacecraft's observations of Uranus' protective magnetosphere were wildly different from astronomers' expectations.The new study found that when ...