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

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

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.

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

But the accretion theory struggles to explain gas giants that form far from their stars, or the existence of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune.

Science News: NEW DELHI: A recent research hinted at significant presence of methane ice within Uranus and Neptune which have long been regarded as icy giants, pres.

Uranus and Neptune are water-rich gas giants. These giant planets have extreme pressures of 2 million times the Earth’s atmosphere. Additionally, the inside of these planets are as hot as the Sun’s ...

New Giant Planet Is Evidence of Possible Planetary Collisions A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be ...

The ice-giant Neptune, the most distant and third largest planet in our solar system, is a distinctive dark blue ball of gas, which may appear calm but is actually throttled by a chaotic ...