What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications as "ice giants?" This is what a recent study accepted for publication in ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

Uranus and Neptune may soon lose their reputation as the "boring" planets of the solar system. Long overshadowed by the grandeur of Jupiter and Saturn, scientists now believe that beneath their thick, ...

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Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...