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Icon for www.msn.comUSA TODAY on MSN.com · Nov 12, 2024

Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.

What that means is those five major moons of Uranus may be active after all. “This new work explains some of the apparent contradictions, and it will change our view of Uranus once again," said ...
Icon for www.scientificamerican.comScientific American · May 8, 2023

The Satellites of Uranus

The moons .f Uranus, in contrast to their primary ... This is the smallest angle of inclination of the orbits of any o* the major or terrestrial planets; while the linear eccentricity, or distance ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Apr 3, 2025

Studying Uranian moons using passive radar sounding

This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated using passive radar sounding methods from Uranus to ...
DNA India · 13d

NASA shares 7 unseen images of Uranus

This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its rotation axis.
Icon for people.comPeople · May 9, 2024

A Guide to the Planets in Astrology and What They Mean in Your Birth Chart

Mankind has followed them since ancient times, in addition to our two luminaries: the sun and the moon. PEOPLE's resident ... for all outer planets: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Icon for www.eurekalert.orgEurekAlert! · Nov 25, 2024

Uranus (IMAGE)

The planet Uranus, photographed by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986. The planet and its moons are expected to be the target of NASA’s next major mission to the outer solar system.
Icon for www.sciencedaily.comScience Daily · Jan 4, 2024

Uranus News

Nov. 25, 2024 — 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 ...
Gizmodo · 13d

NASA Takes Advantage of Planetary Alignment to Take a Peek at Uranus

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.
Icon for bgr.comBGR · Apr 8, 2020

Astronomers explain why Uranus is so weird

Unlike the collision that helped form the Earth and Moon, the impact between Uranus and this unknown icy object would have generated a wealth of gas and smaller debris. The planet tipped over onto ...
Icon for www.bbc.co.ukBBC · May 23, 2023

Features of our solar system

Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths, and moons orbit around planets ... time it takes a planet to orbit the Sun. The planet Uranus takes about 84 Earth years (or 30,688 Earth days ...