The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to what can drive ...

Billions of miles (kilometers) from the Sun, Uranus and Neptune are the most distant planets in our Solar System. Long ...

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 ...

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

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think they have found the answer to a puzzle that has lingered for nearly four ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

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A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life. Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Let’s stop pretending, shall we? Because really, we’re not fooling anyone. Uranus is funny. It was funny when you were twelve, and it’s funny now. It was certainly funny when I was a boy and went to a ...