Planet Uranus News

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  Recycling Of Orbiting Debris May Extend Lifetimes Of Planets' Rings

  December 9, 2003 — Although rings around planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are relatively short-lived, new evidence implies that the recycling of orbiting debris can lengthen the lifetime of such rings, ... > full story
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  Hubble Uncovers Smallest Moons Yet Seen Around Uranus

  September 26, 2003 — Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are about 8 to 10 miles across (12 to 16 km) — ... > full story
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  Jupiter-Like Planets Formed In Hundreds – Not Millions – Of Years, Study Shows

  December 2, 2002 — An accepted assumption in astrophysics holds that it takes more than 1 million years for gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn to form from the cosmic debris circling a young star. But new ... > full story
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  25 Years Later, Voyager Mission Keeps Pushing The Space Envelope

  August 19, 2002 — A quarter-century after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft departed Earth to visit outer planets, the historic mission is flying a race against ... > full story
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  Successful Satellite-Hunting Team Finds Four New Moons In The Far Reaches Of The Planet Saturn

  November 1, 2000 — An international team of eight "satellite hunters," astronomers who pluck tiny specks of light out of the distant solar system, has discovered four new outer moons of Saturn orbiting at least ... > full story
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  Huge Spring Storms Rouse Uranus From Winter Hibernation

  April 1, 1999 — If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive storms, each one covering the country from Kansas to New York, with temperatures of 300 ... > full story
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  Two New Moons Of Uranus Discovered

  November 1, 1997 — A team of astronomers has discovered two distant moons orbiting around the planet ... > full story

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