While telescopes and the Voyager 2 flyby gave us glimpses of its atmosphere and unusual tilt, many questions remain ...

A comparison between the Gas Planets Uranus and Neptune on a starry background. Image source: Tristan3D / Adobe The researchers believe this layered structure is a result of the extreme ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its way to outer regions of the solar system in the late 80's, it noticed something odd. Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's ...

Assuming you’ve accepted Pluto’s demotion, Uranus and Neptune are the two planets in our Solar System farthest from Earth. That distance means humanity is still learning a lot about them. Some ...

Neptune and Uranus are called “ice giants” because they consist of far more frozen water, ammonia, and methane compared to Jupiter and Saturn, the “gas giants.” ...

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this study to ...

These magnetic fields are tilted significantly, compared with their rotation axes, and are disorganized, ... Do you have a question about Uranus and Neptune? Let us know via [email protected].

A 1986 image of Uranus and a 1989 image of Neptune released shortly after each Voyager 2 flyby, compared with the study’s reprocessed images of the planets that better approximate their true colors.

During their comparison of images of Uranus for the study, the researchers looked at measurements of the planet’s brightness recorded by the Lowell Observatory in Arizona from 1950 to 2016.

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this study to ...

How were the moons around Neptune and Uranus found? Sheppard observed the new moons using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. While the moons move at a glacial pace compared to Earth's moon — the ...

Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a "dipole magnetic field." This was in stark contrast to our own rocky world, as well as the two gas giants Jupitar and ...