Rethinking the “Ice Giants”: Uranus and Neptune may be rockier than we thought

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

Longstanding 'ice giant' classification of Uranus and Neptune might be conflicted

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...
NBC New York

A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...
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The rings of Uranus are being held back by its pesky moons

The size of Uranus' rings is controlled by the planet's five major moons, which are able to eject significant amounts of dust out of the Uranian system, according to new simulations designed to figure ...
Space.com

Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with ...
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A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...