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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Ago
An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...
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Rethinking the “Ice Giants”: Uranus and Neptune may be rockier than we thought
Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The cyan or light blue areas seen on the right-side image of Neptune are an auroral glow detected ...
What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...
The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...
We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...
Ice giant planets such as Uranus and Neptune exhibit complex atmospheric dynamics that are critical to understanding planetary weather, chemistry, and long‐term climate evolution. Their atmospheres ...
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Getting To Uranus Could Take Half The Time With SpaceX's Starship
One advantage of Starship, which should be tested in the coming months, is the ability to be refueled in space. The vehicle ...
Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was made ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright aurora activity on Neptune for the first time. For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the ...
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