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.

Nearly four decades after Voyager 2 skimmed past Uranus, a fresh look at its measurements is reshaping what scientists ...

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 ...

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

New research suggests Uranus and Neptune may not be true ice giants, with rocky interiors dominating instead, challenging ...

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think ...

This week, researchers identified signaling pathways underpinning drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally lethal diagnosis. A physicist proposed that conscious states in the brain may arise ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With Earth directly between Uranus and the Sun, the seventh ...

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