This image of the planet Uranus was taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Previously, scientists had suggested it was the methane of Neptune that makes that ...

Back in the late 1900s, the images Voyager 2 recorded of Uranus and Neptune were in single colors combined to create composite images that showed the planets to be cyan and azure, respectively.

Neptune and Uranus are both ice planets in our solar system, but they possess different shades of blue. While Uranus has a pale cyan color, Neptune is a more vibrant blue.

Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color.

Neptune was previously thought to be a dark azure, while Uranus was supposedly a lighter blueish-green. However, the polished images reveal the ice giants are much closer in color to each other ...

Seventh planet Uranus and eighth planet Neptune are both regarded as gas giants and they have similar masses, sizes, and atmospheric compositions. However, while Uranus is a shade of cyan, Neptune ...

A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has concluded that our popular ideas about the colors of the planets Uranus and Neptune are all wrong. Far from being two distinct shades, they ...

Voyager 2 conducted a flyby of Uranus in 1986, and the images revealed a planet with a more pale cyan or blue color. The vessel flew by Neptune in 1989 and the imagery showed a planet with a rich ...

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color. But in reality, Neptune is far more ...

Most people think of Uranus and Neptune as pale greenish blue and royal blue. But a new study shows the two planets are actually a very similar color.

The distant planets are more similar in appearance than previously believed. Neptune and Uranus show true colors in new photos Researchers reveal the true colors of the planets Neptune and Uranus ...

Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color.