Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

The finding of possible oceans inside Uranus and Neptune shifts the goalposts in planetary science. These facts overthrow preconceived ideas about the ice giants of the solar system. This allows for ...

It probably spent nearly all of the past 4.5 billion years in a deep freeze beyond Neptune, inside the comet Wild 2 (pronounced VILT-two). Decades ago Wild 2 somehow got nudged into an orbit that ...

Neptune, for example ... of CO ice will react with the hydrogen to form additional water, the carbon inside refractory ...

In the early hours of Saturday, June 17, 2023 an alignment of Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus and Mercury will be visible in the eastern night sky. All five planets will be spread out along the ...