Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Science

Planetary 'twins' Uranus and Neptune may have different origin stories

By indirectly probing the depths of Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres, an international team of scientists has revealed a significant contrast in their chemical composition. Neptune appears to be more enriched in oxygen than Uranus. These results suggest that the two ice giants may have formed in different regions of the primitive solar system before reaching their current orbits, calling into…

Planetary 'twins' Uranus and Neptune may have different origin stories

We haven't written up this one. Phys.org has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at phys.org →

More in Science

More from Monday 19 October →