SCIENTISTS have discovered three never-before-seen celestial bodies circling Neptune and Uranus. The objects are all moons and they were found using a special imaging technique. One of the new moon… ...

Undiscovered gems in Uranus and Neptune’s atmospheres. Neptune and Uranus are both categorised as ice giants, which are planets with dense, frigid atmospheres. According to NASA’s latest research, ...

Neptune and Uranus are 17 and 15 times the mass of Earth, respectively, and their oceans are crushed by pressures millions of times more intense than the air pressure at Earth’s sea level.

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond ...

Zwick’s idea is to launch a probe—or a couple of probes—toward the farthest big objects in the solar system: the icy planets Uranus and Neptune. “Only Uranus and Neptune are sensible ...

Uranus (left) and Neptune photographed by Voyager 2. NASA/JPL. In our solar system, the two outermost planets of Uranus and Neptune are something of an oddity.

The planets Uranus and Neptune are possibly the least explored planetary objects in our solar system. Due to their incredible distances from Earth, the only spacecraft to have visited these awesome ...

The hidden moons were discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, and the discovery brings the moon counts for these planets to 28 and 16, respectively. The discovery of these hidden moons is both ...

At 1.9 billion miles (3 billion kilometers) away, Uranus is the second most-distant planet. Most theories say planets slowly built up from a disk of gas and dust that once reached out to Neptune's ...

Unlike Jupiter and Saturn, which both have a plethora of moons, Uranus is known to host 28 moons and Neptune just 16. That includes Uranus’s new diminutive moon, which is just 5 miles across.

Some estimates suggest Uranus and Neptune may each have 50,000 times the quantity of water in Earth's oceans. But the authors of the new study say these models ignore the way the ice giants formed.