Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's ...

Neptune, one of our most distant planetary neighbors, may not be the color we've always thought it was. Previous images of far-off planets showed Neptune as being a deep electric blue, while Uranus ...

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Researchers are investigating an alien version of water inside the strange, icy interiors of Uranus and Neptune. In a new study, scientists have devised a theoretical computer model and used it to ...

New NASA research has discovered that four moons that orbit the far outer planet — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon — may have the composition to host life. It was discovered that these four of 27 ...

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