A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

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 ...