For decades, Uranus and Neptune have carried the tidy label of “ice giants,” shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen ...
Billions of miles (kilometers) from the Sun, Uranus and Neptune are the most distant planets in our Solar System. Long cataloged as simple "ice giants," these planets might hold a major surprise.
New research suggests Uranus and Neptune may not be true ice giants, with rocky interiors dominating instead, challenging ...
Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.
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 ...
New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may be far rockier than long believed, reshaping theories of ice-giant interiors, ...
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets’ interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two ou ...
Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...