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Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Planets Neptune and Uranus (Getty Images/Jason Reed)

New moons of Uranus and Neptune found

Nicole Karlis
This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope exquisitely captures Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap and dim inner and outer rings. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

New image of Uranus from James Webb

Matthew Rozsa
Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory)

Uranus mission won't happen till 2040s

Troy Farah
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Planet Neptune and diamonds (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Galactic forecast: Diamond rain

Troy Farah
Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Did our solar system lose a planet?

Eric Schank
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

Scientists may know how to find Planet 9

Nicole Karlis
Planet Uranus (Getty Images)

The mysteries of Uranus' oceans

Nicole Karlis
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How did Uranus end up on its side?

Jacob Kegerreis - The Conversation
Diamond Planet (NASA)

Diamonds in the sky

Keith A. Spencer
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