There has never been a dedicated mission sent to the “ice giants”, Uranus and Neptune. But there may be one on the horizon.
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It can get very cold in space.
We’re not sure how the rings work or how they formed, but there are a few theories.
Many people are still upset that Pluto was demoted from being a planet. But definitions of various celestial objects are fairly fluid. So whether it is an asteroid or moon or planet is up for debate.
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted clouds and storms on the solar system’s ice giants.
A body at least twice as massive as the Earth smashing into Uranus could have made it lopsided, shows research.
New experimental results on methane may help us to uncover whether Uranus really is the coldest planet.
The Voyager space probes sent back some amazing images of the planets in the outer Solar System, and they’re still talking to Earth every day via Australia’s tracking station.
How a bunch of pebbles could have created Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
Space scientists have a busy decade ahead with plans to visit Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and other interplanetary bodies all on the cards.
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Salford
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Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor, University of Sussex
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Associate Dean for Undergraduate Students and Teaching Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State
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Operations Scientist, CSIRO
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Media Relations - Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO
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Facilities Program Director Nasa Operations Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Student, Computational Astronomy, Durham University
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Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics and Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Hull
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SALT Astronomer, South African Astronomical Observatory
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Hypersonics, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Queensland
