One of the world’s most powerful telescopes has peered inside Uranus to map its version of the northern lights in 3D for the first time. The pale turquoise ball of gas is one of the weirder planets in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These still frames show the view of Uranus through an entire rotation of the planet. (Credit: ESA) The European Space Agency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New simulations reveal a bizarre superionic carbon-hydrogen phase that may exist deep inside giant planets. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

Skoltech scientists and their Chinese colleagues have determined the conditions that enable the existence of a very peculiar ion. Dubbed aquodiium, it can be conceptualized as an ordinary neutral ...

A study has finally determined where Uranus gets its heat. Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined that the gas giant ...

Uranus appears to have far more water frozen as ice in its interior than astronomers thought, potentially settling a long-running mystery about whether it formed differently to its closest neighbour, ...

“Carbon and hydrogen are among the most abundant elements in planetary materials, yet their combined behavior at giant-planet conditions remains far from fully understood,” Liu said. The pressures ...

The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...