A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

the outer layers of Uranus are lacking in oxygen, which is required for combustion. It might not even help to pump in more oxygen than is contained in the entire solar system. But the interior of ...

Unlike Neptune, Uranus' poles present an insufficient amount of methane to form stable layers. This allows heat to rise more easily from the planet's interior, thereby encouraging the formation of ...