Scientists just confirmed that Uranus smells like farts

In what is possibly this week’s most important science news, some serious researchers have confirmed that Uranus smells like farts.

No giggling at the back, please.

In an inspired piece of reporting, Gizmodo approached a variety of space experts to confirm the smell of Uranus.

And it does, literally smell of farts, due to hydrogen sulfide gas (the stuff which gives farts an ‘eggy’ smell.

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Of course, this is all rather academic, as it’s so cold there that if you were to attempt to sniff the gas, you would die instantly.

Mark Hofstadter, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, ‘You wouldn’t want to be in that atmosphere trying to breathe. There’s probably not enough oxygen in these atmospheres to support us.’

Hofstadter says that in the outer layers of Uranus’s atmosphere, there is hydrogen, helium and methane – but deeper inside there is probably hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, methane, and carbon dioxide.

Hofstadter says, ‘I think the smelliest things are probably… the hydrogen sulfide and the ammonia.’