Neptune was supposed to be the quiet, distant ice giant, a cold blue marble barely warmed by the Sun. Instead, the James Webb Space Telescope has just turned it into one of the strangest, most ...

Because Uranus and Neptune are so far away, scientists only have educated guesses about the combination of ices and gases that make up these ice giants. While the general understanding is that these ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...

The planets in the Solar System are typically divided into three categories based on their composition: the four terrestrial rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars), followed by the two gas ...

Because Uranus and Neptune are so far away, scientists only have educated guesses about the combination of ices and gases that make up these ice giants. While the general understanding is that these ...

A team of researchers is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two outer most planets, might be more rocky and less icy than ...