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

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

Astronomers on Mauna Kea found the first space object on which NASA’s Roman Space Telescope can test its imaging technology.

A new study suggests that Uranus and Neptune may not be ice-rich planets after all. Researchers from the University of Zurich propose that these distant worlds could be dominated by rock, challenging ...

The ice giant classification is oversimplified, as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,” meint Luca Morf des Universitats Zürich. Erörterung des schweizer Wissenschaftler sollte jedoch ...

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

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died in March 2023 but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégée . Read on ...