The ice giant classification is oversimplified as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,' said experts.

Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) hopes to ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

TEMPE, Ariz. a Quick: What’s the order of the planets in the solar system? Need a little help? Maybe the following mnemonic rings a bell: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pizzas.” It’s ...

If you are a budding astronomer or simply enjoy watching the sky through a telescope, you probably have an interest in all of the planets in our solar system. There are a total of eight planets, ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

The solar system's oddball planet has some pretty odd moons, too. The first infrared spectra of Uranus's small inner moons, ...