The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

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

New research suggests Uranus and Neptune may not be true ice giants, with rocky interiors dominating instead, challenging ...

For decades, school posters and science museum displays have grouped Uranus and Neptune together as “ice giants,” a tidy ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

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, ...

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