A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Neptune's original family of satellites may have been destroyed when its largest moon, Triton, entered the picture. New research suggests that the massive moon may have tossed some of the original ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...

NEPTUNE is the eighth planet from the sun and is invisible to the naked eye. But how many moons does Neptune have? Here's all you need to know... Scientists have so far discovered 14 moons orbiting ...

Neptune is like a celestial paint swatch: a stunning royal blue that demands attention. The eighth planet in the solar system, it is one half of the ice-giant system (the other half being Uranus), and ...

Neptune receives a tiny fraction of the sunlight that strikes Earth, yet somehow, that’s enough to transform the clouds of this faraway world. The main driver of cloud formation is generally the ...

The ice giant classification is oversimplified, as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,” meint Luca Morf des Universitats Zürich. Erörterung des schweizer Wissenschaftler sollte jedoch ...

Lying at the very outskirts of our solar system, the ice giant Neptune has long represented both a challenge and a mystery to astronomers and space explorers alike. The dark and cold planet, the ...

NEPTUNE is the eighth planet from the sun and is invisible to the naked eye. But how many moons does Neptune have? Here’s all you need to know… Please provide a ...