Lying at the very outskirts of our solar system, the ice giant Neptune has long represented both a challenge and a mystery to astronomers and space explorers alike. The dark and cold planet, the ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...

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Neptune is a fascinating planet. For example, its most memorable characteristic is its glorious blue hue. But what causes this unique coloring? To answer that, we have to look at what Neptune’s ...

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 ...

A study suggests the ice giants Uranus and Neptune aren't quite as watery as previously thought. They may also contain huge amounts of frozen methane, potentially solving the puzzle of how they formed ...

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. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new analysis finds that images from Voyager 2's close encounter with Neptune show the planet as being far too blue In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is ...

Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants because they are smaller and compositionally different from Jupiter and Saturn, the gas giants. Jupiter and Saturn are composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, ...

Patrick Gerard Joseph Irwin has received funding related to this study from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. In many images of the two outer gas giants of the Solar System, Neptune ...