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

…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected.

Perhaps it's time to rebrand.

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

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

Every decade, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sit down and identify our next priorities for space exploration. This is important stuff because it helps shape what we’ll ...

Japanese astronomers have a theory to explain all the weird things about Uranus, including its rotation speed and the angle at which it spins. The planet may have been impacted by an icy body that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Flying by in early 1986, Voyager 2 captured this picture of ...

The findings provide an answer to a planetary mystery that has bewildered scientists for nearly four decades.

Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...