Uranus's extreme tilt causes extreme seasons. Each pole of Uranus experiences 42 years of continuous sunlight followed by 42 years of darkness. The planet is an ice giant, made up of methane ...

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the researchers were also able to make a more detailed weather map of the planet. Although it is subjected to extreme heating by being so close to its star, this alien world still has cooler ...

Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

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As Europe gets hotter, more people are expected to die from extreme heat, outweighing the reduction in those killed by very cold weather. Cities in northern European regions such as the UK and ...

With a radius larger than Jupiter's but less than a fifth of the planet's mass, WASP-127b possesses a highly inflated atmosphere—one scientists have since referred to as "puffy." But the distant ...

"I am particularly excited about the potential applications of this research and the opportunities it opens for further exploration in extreme-condition optical systems," said OU Physics Professor ...

There will be an extra 2.3 million temperature-related deaths in Europe’s main cities by 2099 without more action to limit warming and adapt to it, researchers predict. However, in cities in ...

An extra 2.3 million people in European cities could die as a result of extreme temperatures — both hot and cold — by the end of the century if countries do not take action to mitigate climate ...