Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Uranus has been the butt of a lot of jokes (stop giggling). And it doesn't help that it's huge — roughly four times the size of ...

Uranus has been the butt of a lot of jokes (stop giggling). And it doesn't help that it's huge — roughly four times the size of Earth — or gassy with an atmosphere comprised partly of methane. Or, as ...

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It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science – if there's life beyond Earth, where is it? While you might think the answer is 'far far away', surprisingly, it could be much closer to home ...

Every generation of science teachers has faced the same cosmic dilemma: how do you say Uranus without triggering a room full of laughter? The seventh planet from the Sun may be an ice giant, but its ...