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Uranus could probably not support life as we know it. Uranus is one of the gas giants, and it may in fact be more like a gargantuan slush ball.

We shouldn't rule Uranus out when it comes to life, especially given that it may be chiefly made of water. We do not know its interior composition below 300 km. We know its density, which is 1.3g/cm3, and we can only speculate what it is made of. It is even a possibility the gas-liquid transition takes place at the bottom of the troposphere (300 km below where the pressure is 1 bar). The general view is that the watery layer (possibly icy because of the very high pressures) doesnt start until at least 1,000 km below the upper clouds, but we cannot prove that it doesnt start as little as 300 km below the clouds - in which case there could be an ocean with, indeed, a clear gas-liquid boundary.

At this level the temperature is in the region of 50c and the pressure is around 100 bars - that is roughly the same as the pressure on Venus - so we wouldn't be able to go out and paddle a canoe on it, and probably not much sunlight penetrates that deep, but we could send robotic space probes that deep, and life on earth exists deep in the ocean at similar pressures.

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