Most of its mass is thought to be a hot, dense fluid of "icy materials – water, methane, and ammonia – above a small rocky core." Uranus has 13 known rings and 11 of them can been seen in the ...

Scientists have turned plastic into diamonds. Using high-powered lasers, the team zapped samples of PET, the common material used in plastic bottles, to produce intense heat and pressure to form ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, ... New computer simulations show that icy materials naturally separate at high pressure and temperature into these two layers. view more .

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Lamy, L. Sromovsky Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study.