For decades, school posters and science museum displays have grouped Uranus and Neptune together as “ice giants,” a tidy ...

New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.

New simulations suggest Uranus and Neptune may contain far more rock than ice, offering fresh explanations for their unusual ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these planets be called "rocky giants" instead. Astronomers have long called Uranus ...

We might have been very wrong about exactly what lurks below the tranquil blue and green surfaces of Uranus and Neptune. Previous theories have suggested a range of hidden properties of the two ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...

The 2024 astronomical calendar is packed with events; And there's more to look forward to, despite the eclipse and auroras already having passed overhead. Nicknamed the "planet parade," a planetary ...

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 ...