Our fundamental understanding of Neptune and Uranus may be completely wrong, say researchers rethinking our solar system.
For decades, school posters and science museum displays have grouped Uranus and Neptune together as “ice giants,” a tidy ...
While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...
You may feel inspired to breathe a sigh of relief because yet another retrograde is coming to a close. Neptune, the planet of ...
Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar ...
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...
New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.
Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.
Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to ...