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We may know why Uranus and Neptune lack dipole magnetic fields, at last.
New research claims that Neptune and Uranus may hold hidden oceans of water and other materials below their extreme atmospheres.
For more than 30 years, the public have believed Neptune is a brilliant shade of dark blue, quite different in colour from neighbour Uranus. But a new study debunks this by finally revealing what ...
Our solar system may be small in relation to the universe, but amazingly it's still yielding new discoveries. Scientists have found 3 new moons - two orbiting Neptune and one orbiting Uranus.
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.
Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets of the solar system, make for excellent viewing throughout the end of September. Here's how to locate and view them.
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 ...
Vast Oceans of Water May Be Hiding Within Uranus and Neptune A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic ...
New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets’ mantles could be creating disordered magnetic fields.
Related: "We now have, I would say, a good theory why Uranus and Neptune have really different fields, and it's very different from Earth, Jupiter and Saturn," Militzer said in a statement.
Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research.
We may know why Uranus and Neptune lack dipole magnetic fields, at last.