{"id":218668,"date":"2025-07-24T20:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-find-uranus-is-surprisingly-warm-heating-up-the-case-for-a-new-planetary-mission"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:32:16","slug":"scientists-find-uranus-is-surprisingly-warm-heating-up-the-case-for-a-new-planetary-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-find-uranus-is-surprisingly-warm-heating-up-the-case-for-a-new-planetary-mission","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm, heating up the case for a new planetary mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-uranus-is-surprisingly-warm-heating-up-the-case-for-a-new-planetary-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/uranus\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/uranus\">Uranus<\/a> is emitting its own internal heat \u2014 even more than it receives from sunlight \u2014 and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/nasa\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/nasa\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Voyager 2 probe nearly four decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists led by Xinyue Yang of the University of Houston analyzed decades of readings from spacecraft and computer models to find that Uranus emits 12.5% more internal heat than the amount of heat it receives from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/the-sun\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/the-sun\">the sun<\/a>. However, that amount is still far less than the internal heat of other outer <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/solar-system\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/solar-system\">solar system<\/a> planets like <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/jupiter\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/jupiter\">Jupiter<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/saturn\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/saturn\">Saturn<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/neptune\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/planets\/neptune\">Neptune<\/a>, which emit 100% more heat than they get from the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat \u2014 even more than it receives from sunlight \u2014 and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA\u2019s Voyager 2 probe nearly four decades ago. Scientists led by Xinyue Yang of the University of Houston analyzed decades of readings from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}