The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA to begin planning a new mission that will send a spacecraft to the ice giant. The mission is still in ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

We might finally understand what’s going on inside Uranus and Neptune, and the answer is pretty surprising: They may each contain an ocean of water. “We didn’t really know anything before,” about ...

In April 2025, a stellar occultation was an uncommon and rare space event that gave NASA scientists an unusual chance to study the atmosphere of Uranus as was not yet possible since more than ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. The discovery, announced by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which was viewed up close by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, has been the focus of more than a few studies over the last few decades. One of the more recent ...

Researchers from two French institutes have successfully created superionic ammonia. This scientific achievement holds immense promise for studying distant planets like Uranus and Neptune, which have ...

Uranus and Neptune may be hiding slushy hailstones called mushballs deep inside them. These huge clumps of water and ammonia may explain why there is so little ammonia higher up in the ice giants’ ...

Using computer modeling, chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) have found out which molecules may be present in the interiors of Uranus, Neptune, and the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Brad Gibson, Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for ...

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