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

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 ...

Join us for an entertaining look at Space Perspective's innovative Neptune spacecraft, where unforgettable events meet the ...

For some time, researchers have hypothesized that deep inside both Neptune and Uranus, it may be raining diamonds. They have now found evidence showing how it may happen. In the research, an ...

The ice giant is farther away than Uranus, yet their surface temperatures are remarkably similar. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Researchers are investigating an alien version of water inside the strange, icy interiors of Uranus and Neptune. In a new study, scientists have devised a theoretical computer model and used it to ...

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’ ...

In 1991, Alan Stern, Jonathan Lunine, and David Morrison presented a proposal to NASA to venture forth into unexplored territory. If they’d had their way, NASA would have sent probes to Neptune and ...

Carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen are some of the easiest heavier elements to form through fusion. As a result, they’re common in our Solar System, typically found combined with hydrogen to make ammonia, ...