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Violent winds on Uranus and Neptune confined to upper atmosphere
May 18, 10:36 am
Washington, May 18 (ANI): Uranus and Neptune have long been known to harbor swirling clouds and violent winds churning up their atmospheres.
Super-Earths more like mini-Neptunes
Feb 5, 3:01 pm
Washington, February 5 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered hundreds of planets in orbit around other stars and one type of these so-called 'exoplanets' is the super-Earths that are thought to have a high proportion of rock but at the same time are significantly bigger than our own world.
Sydney, Dec. 11 (ANI): An astrologer predicting a 'chaos' for the internet and media world advises professionals to back up anything important on a USB stick before they leave office tonight.
Washington, November 28 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered vast belts of comets surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host nothing larger than Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds, using ESA's Herschel space observatory.
Washington, November 28 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered vast belts of comets surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host nothing larger than Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds, using ESA's Herschel space observatory.
'Super-Earths' may have life-protecting magnetic shields
Nov 23, 10:53 am
Washington, November 23 (ANI): Based on laboratory tests, scientists have suggested that exoplanets that are bigger than Earth but smaller than gas giants like Neptune could have oceans of liquid metal and life-protecting magnetic shields.
Washington, June 22 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet as they orbit very close to each other around the same star about 1,200 light-years from Earth.
Washington, May 11 (ANI): Over 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus.
Ice giant planets may have more water volume than thought
Mar 20, 4:59 pm
Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): In a challenge to current astrophysical models of the universe, researchers have discovered that present estimates of ice-giant planetary interiors overstate water's compressibility by as much as 30 percent.
Hubble spots first-of-its kind 'steamy' planet
Feb 22, 12:28 pm
Washington, Feb 22 (ANI): Our solar system comprises three types of planets, namely rocky, terrestrial worlds (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), and ice giants (Uranus and Neptune).
Washington, Sept 05 (ANI): Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets orbiting in resonance with each other using NASA's planet hunting Kepler Space Telescope.
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