Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this study to ...

An exploded view of an ice giant planet such as Uranus or Neptune, with its hidden water-rich layer (blue) that has separated from a deeper layer of hot, high-pressure carbon, nitrogen and ...

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research.

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 ...

New research claims that Neptune and Uranus may hold hidden oceans of water and other materials below their extreme atmospheres.

The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in ...

Because Uranus and Neptune are so far away, scientists only have educated guesses about the combination of ices and gases that make up these ice giants. While the general understanding is that ...

A recent study seeks to find out why Neptune and Uranus, both ice giant planets, are different colors. The answer is to do with their atmospheric conditions.

Neptune is a touch bluer than Uranus, but the difference in shade is not nearly as great as it appears in common images, according to a study published Friday.