Diamond rains within the interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be more common than previously believed.

Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

When NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune in 1989, it found tantalising hints of aurora activity in the ice giant’s clouds. However, scientists were unable to verify the phenomenon at the ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming, even ...

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 ...

The contrast in many images of Neptune was enhanced to enable scientists to better see the bands that stretch across the ice giant, as well as its clouds and storms.

A new study has found that "diamond rain," a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought.

The diamond rain effect is thought to occur deep within ice giants like Uranus and Neptune.

On Uranus and Neptune, heat from the depths would normally lead to frequent storms. Yet, that's not the case. The answer lies in the condensation of methane, which alters heat transfer. When methane ...

The detection of Neptune's auroras will help astronomers better understand how particles from the sun interact with its atmosphere, providing a new area of study about ice giant planets.