11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
... planets with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune (which are 14.5 and 17 times Earth's, respectively). The term is something of a misnomer though as it refers only...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... that are similar to those found in the deep atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, led the team to discover that...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... to Support Early Extraterrestrial Planetary Landings. Sigrid Close, Stanford University in Stanford, California : Exploring Uranus: Sustained ChipSat/CubeSat Activity Through Transmitted Electromagnetic Radiation (SCATTER). Amelia Greig, University...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... with the interplanetary medium around them say the team. “This is a fundamental process that’s applicable to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and probably exoplanets as well,” says Yao. The result also highlights how similar the ion...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...’s companion, PDS 70b, though. PDS 70b is closer in and orbits about the same distance away that Uranus does from our Sun, but the new ALMA observations indicate that PDS 70b does not...
13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
... have a good understanding of how our Solar System formed, some mysteries still remain. Why for example is Uranus tilted sideways, does the Oort Cloud really exist and why does a lot of the dust found...
