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NASA Just Got a Rare Look Inside Uranus – Here’s What They Found
A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...
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Uranus: From Name Controversy to Orbital Oddities
Uranus might be the butt of many jokes, but it’s one of the most unusual planets in the Solar System. Unlike all other ...
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Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event
Related: Uranus: Everything you need to know about the coldest planet in the solar system For example, the scientists measured the temperatures and composition of Uranus' stratosphere, the middle ...
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Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus
It's an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet's atmosphere and rings. Planetary scientists call it a stellar occultation and that's exactly what happened with Uranus on ...
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Rare Alignment Gives NASA A Chance To Peer Into Uranus
On April 7, 2025, star HIP 16271 was occulted by Uranus. As a star, it is by no means famous. A yellow-white star in the constellation of Taurus, not bright enough to be visible to the naked eye ...
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First look inside Uranus for 30 years discovers it has 13 rings and is full of gas
NASA chiefs took advantage of an unusual cosmic event to get their first detailed glimpse inside the mysterious planet this ...
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Solar system guide: Discover the order of planets and other amazing facts
Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...
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Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails around a Bright Star. The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 2025; 984 (1): L3 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adbf21 Cite This Page : ...
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Scientists find "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet K2-18b: "This could be the tipping point"
Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. There has been ...
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Scientists Strive to Explain the Strange Weather on Other Planets
They’ve been observed throughout the solar system, on every planet and moon that has enough of an atmosphere—from the roasting skies of Venus to the frigid poles of remote Uranus and Neptune.
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Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail
Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from Earth in the Pegasus constellation , this doomed world named BD+05 ...
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Distant planet shows "strongest evidence yet" of potential extraterrestrial life
A team of researchers has found new evidence that there may be life on a planet two and a half times the size of Earth in another solar system. But don't get too excited just yet. A team of ...