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

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

Perhaps it's time to rebrand.

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

Uranus is arguably the most mysterious planet in the solar system – we know very little about it. So far, we have only visited the planet once, with the Voyager 2 spacecraft back in 1986. The most ...

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

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

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URANUS has been the butt of many a schoolkid's joke during science class, thanks to its rather "quirky" yet misunderstood ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

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

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 ...